[OS X TeX] OT: Memory

[Marcus Michalsky]

Hi again, I am referring to the

http://www.mac-tv.de/RSS_Gratisfilm.lasso

free podcast videos. One of them is a test (german), where
they run two H.264 videos. The cpu temperature measurement was 90  
degrees (max).
Surely it isn't the typical state, because you don't always use 2  
cores at 100%, but encoding DVDs, rendering 3D animations etc. is  
also heavy. And the Mac Mini (and the notebooks) don't have much  
space to get rid off the warm air...

(The promised Performance / Watt issue from the Keynote doesn't hold  
in my opinion ...)

@Claus Gerhardt. Well surely I want to buy a 24' MAC, but I am still  
a student with a limited budget ;-) If I just go out and buy a 24'  
iMAC , then I wouldn't consider the option of upgrading from 512 MB  
to 1 GB ? :-(

@Bruno
 > It's not absolutely certain what exactly makes the difference,  
between a 1GHz PowerBook G4
 > with 1 GB RAM and a 2.66 GHz MacPro with 2 GB RAM: CPU, frequency,  
RAM. But for sure
 > with a new Mac next year you will feel a difference, whether a  
MacPro or not!

I hope so, that 2 cores and a faster RAM with double capacity makes  
hell the difference ;-)
But I have to put some money aside to get a new MAC. So i considered  
to simply buy a RAM module for my old one, to survive with it another  
half a year...

On Nov 12, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Fernando Pereira wrote:

>
> On Nov 12, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Marcus Michalsky wrote:
>
>>  But the new Notebooks get 90 degrees (Celsius) in a test...
>
> I don't know which test you are referring to, but my MacBook  
> (black, 2GB memory) runs fairly cool for typical TeX work. On the  
> other hand, as has been discussed on the net and I can confirm from  
> experience, MacBooks have had sudden shutdown and CD drive  
> problems. I don't know if Apple has fixed those problems for the  
> new edition (Duo 2), I hope they have. When it works, the MacBook  
> is the nicest laptop I've had.
>
> -- F
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