From: "Jeff Fisher" jefisher@... > > thinking of moving from a Powerbook G4 1.67 up to a Macintel Laptop > to run a huge live kit in logic. The new books still have a > 2Gig Ram limit...my present live template exceeds that and memory > paging begins. On the G4 this means audio glitching as OSX > moves data to and from the system disk. I was wondering if the Intel > boxes with their much faster buses can thus run memory-hogging > setups without interrupting the flow of audio (a dual G5 with only > 512 Megs of RAM was able to do this)...Not looking for simultaneous > playback of many tracks, just the ability to load way way beyond the > RAM ceiling with VSL and plugs in a live situation..with no audio > stuttering > anybody care to test this out > THX Jeff Remember, hard disk access isn't any faster than it's been for the past few years. Nick Batzdorf, editor/publisher Virtual Instruments Magazine - the world of softsynths and samplers www.Virtualinstrumentsmag.com 1-877 VImagzn (846-2496) 818/905-9101, cell 590-9101 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Message
Re: is virtual system memory useable on a Macbook Pro?
2006-05-18 by Nick Batzdorf
Attachments
- No local attachments were found for this message.