Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

steinway03 <dr_l_music@...> wrote:
: 
: --- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, Nick Batzdorf <recording@e...> wrote:
: > I'm waiting too, but it's not so much for the clearance prices (those 
: > never really come; they just replace the lowest model with the 
: > previous midrange one), it's for the inevitable tweaks - better 
: > Firewire, maybe another HD slot, or perhaps even greater memory 
: > capacity.
: 
: Ah.. the memory capacity.  It strikes me as odd that the max memory capacity of the G5 
: top end is 8 GB.  Unless I'm completely misunderstanding, 64 bit addressing would imply 
: 2^61 or so memory capacity (taking into account 2^3 bits per Byte if one needs to), not 
: just an incremental improvement of the G4 32-bit memory limitations.  I'm sure it's more 
: complex than this, and some other limitation applies, but there seems to be the possibility 
: of way more memory than a mere 4x improvement over the previous generation.
: 
: Does anyone else understand this better than I do?

Apple always publishes max memory specs based on the largest compatible
modules currently available at the time of release. The G5 has 4 slots;
the largest currently available DIMMs are 2GB each, so if you fill the G5
with 2GB DIMMs, you've got 8GB. I suspect that when larger DIMMs come out
they will work just fine.

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