[OS X TeX] Re: Editors: Advantages and disadvantages

[Marcus Michalsky]

On Sep 19, 2006, at 4:44 AM, Richard Seguin wrote:

>
> On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Marcus Michalsky wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, I use a Mac Mini 1,42 GHz G4 with 512 MB Ram. I've installed  
>> TeX from the i-installer and
>> use iTeXMac. Before i used a PowerBook G4 12'' 1GHz with i- 
>> installer and TeX-Shop.
>>
>> The machines both work great. I've written some large documents  
>> from lectures in the university.
>> Many math, some images, multiple documents (\include{...}). They  
>> have about 60-100 pages each.
>> Also i built a presentation using the beamer class (73 slides with  
>> many images, xy etc.).
>>
>> What should i tell you about speed :-( Well, it works ;-)
>> In my opinion it is very fair. I dont remember so precisely, but i  
>> think it was faster than 20 seconds.
>> I don't know exactly, but if you make includes and only change one  
>> of them, the compiler only works on this file then ?
>
> Thanks Marcus. I've heard that installing 1 GB of RAM on the Mac  
> Mini makes a big difference in performance, and that 2 GB is even  
> better.
>

Yeah, well, Memory is the one you couldn't get enough from...
The Recommendation is, use as much as you can ;-) (except for  
Notebooks ;-)

Offtopic: Does anyone know what Ram is built-in ? maybe I could  
upgrade mine :D
  		if i get this thing open ^^

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