I am still on my 2 trusted machines. The T41 Thinkpad and the PowerBook G4.
I have been thinking of getting replacements for them; maybe a T61 or a SL series for Thinkpad or the new MacBook. In fact, I may not even get a Thinkpad replacement if BootCamp on the Mac works well enough for me to support my Accounting package on Windows.
One of the key issues I face when getting the new machines is that all these latest OS are also resource hungry.
Let’s not pretend that the latest Microsoft Vista needs more RAM or the wonderful Time Machine or nice eye candy from the Mac requires RAM.
Henrik, from the REBOL Community, alerted me of this article frm MacRumours about the new MacBook Pro ability to support 8Gb RAM.
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/24/new-macbook-pro-does-not-support-8gb-ram-for-now/
Apparently, while the new chipset is able to detect 8Gb of RAM, it seems that the Mac OS X is only ‘capable’ of using up to 4Gb effectively.
This is where my concern is. Is the MacBook Pro with 4Gb of RAM able to run BootCamp fast enough?