Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
When I saw the new Mac Pros come out and saw that you could slap up to 32GB RAM into them:
With a total of eight DIMM slots available, you can install up to 32GB of 800MHz ECC fully buffered DIMM memory.I then saw the very ugly but up-to-date Dell PT7400 which boasts of up to 64GB of RAM. They go so far to say that they will support up to 128GB of RAM:
Up to 128GB (available in Q2 2008 with expected availability of 8GB FB DIMMs) quad-channel architecture DDR2 Fully-Buffered DIMM 667 and 800 MHz ECC memoryNow, I'm sure the Mac Pro could do the same given its 64-bit and assume it has the same number of slots. However, who in their right mind would actually *need* that much RAM? That is the size of small hard drives. And I'm sure it would cost about the same as your car (right now anyway).
2 Comments:
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John said...
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“I imagine probably only people in the scientific community would require that much memory.
I know AfterEffects and 3d apps love lots of RAM, but imagine there is a point of diminishing returns.”
