Members jonathan_matos5 Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 how much ram do i need for recording stuff i was thinking at least a gig maybe more. as mentioned in a previous thread I'm in the process of laptop shopping and putting together some recording gear too. but i don't know how much ram ill be needing. ive decided im gonna get a macbook but should i buy the extra ram or use the money for software? ill probably get the applecare plan thing too because ive had bad luck with pcs so better safe than sorry:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Givati Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 I believe the requirements can be found on the software you use. I use cubase. Itrequires at least 512. I have 1gig. Works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t3ch Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 If you're running XP, I recommend 1gb. If vista, 2gb. Of course, more couldn't hurt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rummy Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 Well, it depends on other components as well such as the CPU, hard drive speed, interface, etc, etc. I have 1 gig, and I have not had any issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted December 8, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 If you're running XP, I recommend 1gb. If vista, 2gb. Of course, more couldn't hurt... i might bootcamp with xp so i can rawk with some games:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jannda Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 I run XP with 1 gig no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted December 8, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 Well, it depends on other components as well such as the CPU, hard drive speed, interface, etc, etc. I have 1 gig, and I have not had any issues. http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html ill probably get the 120 gig hard drive i get a student discount:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpark Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 Edit: Saw you are using a mac. I would get at least 2gb if you're going to be booting to XP and playing games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rummy Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.htmlill probably get the 120 gig hard drive i get a student discount:cool: Yeah, looking at the specs there, 1 gig should do fine. You already have a processor fast enough, 1 firewire port...although, I'm curious why they're still using 5400rpm hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted December 8, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 i dont know how much actual gaming ill be doing. so i should be fine with one gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dert_stylus Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 Maximum Ram Allowable.. "it's better to have and not need, then to need and not have" I have 4 gigs of Ram on my G5 and little by little I will max it out at 16 gigs !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted December 8, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 Maximum Ram Allowable.."it's better to have and not need, then to need and not have"I have 4 gigs of Ram on my G5 and little by little I will max it out at 16 gigs !! i can buy more ram later i can buy other useful stuff now and buying more ram is loads cheaper than a new computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitzilla Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 Hard drive speed is more important. You may want to consider using an external hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 82Daion Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 If you won't be doing any 32-track projects, 1 GB should be fine, but 2 wouldn't hurt anything. EDIT: The Macbook only has a 5400RPM drive, but again, for small projects, you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteveyDevey Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 You'll need at least 2TB of ram, an 8GHz chip, and a RAID 5 setup of 15K SCSI drives, at least 100TB each. Oh wait, I thought we were talking about what you'll need next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allan grossman Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 Maximum Ram Allowable.."it's better to have and not need, then to need and not have"I have 4 gigs of Ram on my G5 and little by little I will max it out at 16 gigs !! I'm sorry, but that's incorrect. Thanks for playing, though - we do have some lovely parting gifts for you. Unused RAM is a wasted resource. Buying more RAM than you need just means you spend too much for your technology. The correct amount of memory to have in a machine is the amount where the system does not page to disk under maximum load. Note that some applications (like web browsers) write to a paging file anyway, but the trick is to load up as many applications as you're ever gonna use, add the amount of RAM in use to the amount of pagefile in use, tack on half a gig or so just for fun and call it a requirement. A 32 bit machine cannot address more than 4GB of memory. A 64 bit processor can address much more but if it's running 32 bit applications you still run into the 4GB address space limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LanEvo Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 ive decided im gonna get a macbook but should i buy the extra ram or use the money for software? I've got 1G of RAM on my MacBook. It's enough to record my bass smoothly using Logic 7 and my Bass PODxt. However, more is always better! If I start running a bunch of plug-ins, I get noticeable latency. Of course, that's as much a factor of your processor speed and HDD speed as your RAM. But I'm sure I would be able to record a bit more smoothly with twice the RAM. Also, I wouldn't spend too much money on a larger hard disk. My MacBook has a pretty small HDD (just 120G). I think you can upgrade to 160G for something like $200 ... which is just ridiculously overpriced! A couple of hundred bucks will buy you a pretty big external HDD. Besides, MacBook HDD's are on the slow side. Emre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazz Ad Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 You really don't need much for recording anyway. Memory is only used as a buffer for the encoder.It becomes really useful when you're editing but even in this case you don't need a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteveyDevey Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 I'm sorry, but that's incorrect. Thanks for playing, though - we do have some lovely parting gifts for you.Unused RAM is a wasted resource. Buying more RAM than you need just means you spend too much for your technology.The correct amount of memory to have in a machine is the amount where the system does not page to disk under maximum load. Note that some applications (like web browsers) write to a paging file anyway, but the trick is to load up as many applications as you're ever gonna use, add the amount of RAM in use to the amount of pagefile in use, tack on half a gig or so just for fun and call it a requirement.A 32 bit machine cannot address more than 4GB of memory. A 64 bit processor can address much more but if it's running 32 bit applications you still run into the 4GB address space limit. And even then, you won't generally be able to use all 4GB anyway, because the physical ram lives in the same address space as your memory mappings for devices. So, if you've got a lot and/or some memory intensive devices, you're able to use even less ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dDigitalPimp Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 I have 4 gigs of Ram on my G5 and little by little I will max it out at 16 gigs !! my work pc has 4 gigs in it as well as dual, core 2 duo processors. id love to have a home pc like it but they are not cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dert_stylus Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 all I know and i am not a computer guy by far , but when I was running Logic with 1 gig of ram and all the plug ins that I use , i was running into trouble. This was especially true when I was using IR Reverb plug ins. Once I upgrade (1 gig to 4 gig) it ran a lot faster and smoother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AntiStuff Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 Yeah, 1 g of Ram sounds good. But the hard drive is a serious issue. I have a G4 Powerbook with 512mb of ram, and using the internal HD (5400rpm) would limit the amount of time I could record, it would also randomly stop recording. So I added a 7200rpm external firewire drive and never had any problems again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Evil Clown Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 1 gig should be satisfactory depending on how much tracks, internal effects, plug-ins, and programs running at once. Better to have too much than not enough, in this case. I'd use 2 gigs if available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jonathan_matos5 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 Let me put it this way. I can get an extra gig of ram or i can get logic. If i need the extra gig of ram to run logic then ill have to buy the ram now and the software later or i can just wait and get both later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LanEvo Posted December 9, 2007 Members Share Posted December 9, 2007 Let me put it this way. I can get an extra gig of ram or i can get logic.In that case, go ahead and get Logic. You can always add more RAM later if you find you need it. Emre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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