Why I Love Having 8 Gigs of RAM

I recently upgraded my primary computer from a 15″ MacBookPro with 4 GB of RAM to a 17″ MacBookPro with 8 GB of RAM. That probably sounds gratuitous. Here’s why it’s not:

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I’m currently running:

  • Mac OS 10.5.6
  • Adium (IM chat client)
  • Mail.app (e-mail client)
  • iCal (calendar application)
  • iTunes (music)
  • OmniFocus (GTD todo list)
  • TextMate (text editor)
  • Preview (image viewer – for looking at screenshots, scanned requirements docs)
  • PostgreSQL (CouponEngine database)
  • pgAdmin (postgreSQL client and admin app)
  • Terminal
  • Safari 4 (primary browser)
  • Firefox 3 (for testing look and feel)
  • Eclipse (development environment)
  • Windows XP (running in Parallels-for testing and Oracle)
  • Oracle 10G (ATG database)
  • JBoss 4.0 + ATG 2006.3 with full Commerce stack
  • JBoss 4.2 + Seam application
  • ANT JVMs for running builds

This is what I need to run to do my job, and it takes more than 4 GB of RAM.

Now that I have 8 GB, I’m not longer running into swapping and paging delays, and I’m much more productive.

Having close to twice the screen real estate (~70% more I think), a faster CPU, and 8 hours of battery life don’t hurt either. This is the perfect machine for me.


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