Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

amgmamgma <agreenbu@...> wrote:
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: 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.

Errr, that should read 8 slots, and 1GB DIMMs. I'm not sure if the new 2GB
DIMMs work in the G5, but I suspect that they do.

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