The Mac mentioned in the best possible way by the smartest character on Stargate Atlantis

[Charles Dyer]

On 22 May 2007, at 15:49:11, LuKreme wrote:

> On 22-May-2007, at 12:57, Chad Leigh wrote:
>> On May 22, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Stefano Mori wrote:
>>> On 2007-May-22, at 04:07, Chad Leigh wrote:
>>>> as it starts to act weird.  This is my G5 with 7GB of RAM.
>>> i'd run round the room shouting, wohoooo!! seven gigs!! woohooo!
>> Why more people don't is something I will never understand.  (The  
>> MacPro memory is expensive but the G5 memory is not).
>
> The MacPro RAM is not that bad anymore.  Still expensive compared  
> to the G5, but at <$100/GB it's certainly worth it.  I put 3GB in  
> my machine and plan to double that to 6.
>
> The down side is that means buying 4x1GB and getting rid of the  
> 2x512s.  Sigh.
>
> Course, I need to figure out what RAM my server takes and buy a  
> couple of Gigs for it as well.  Is there a good easy way to figure  
> out what type of RAM a white-box PC takes?

Crucial has a memory estimator which works quite well if you visit  
their site from a Windows machine running MSIE. If not, you can  
download an app which does the same thing.