[GRASS-user] Mac Requirements for GRASS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Andrew MacIntyre]

Tuesday, 22 June 2010 7:33 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote to Andrew Lewin:

> - memory size and speed - again, with the heavy use of temp files, faster
> and/or more memory may not help much.  Though there are some things
> that can chew up a lot of memory.  Memory is cheap.  The memory speed
> between the current line of MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iMacs and Mac Pros
> are all the same, 1066MHz, so no real speed gain there.  Memory maximum
> in the MacBooks and Pros is 8GB, vs 16GB in the iMacs and Mac Pros.

Memory can sometimes be very useful even for a temp-file architected 
application like GRASS - a RAM disk or swap-backed file system can be very 
worthwhile in some situations when memory is plentiful.

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