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Memory Assessor

Macintosh® O/S X

The Macintosh operating system manages memory in substantially different ways than other systems. Still, System 10.2 Jaguar users will find that 128MB is a bare minimum.

To find out how much memory you need, select the description that most closely matches your work environment from the tables below:

Macintosh® O/S X - Administrative and Service
Light Word processing, e-mail, data entry 128MB
Medium Fax/communications, database administration, spreadsheets; more than 2 applications open at a time 256MB
Heavy Complex documents, accounting, business graphics, presentation software, network connectivity 512MB


Macintosh® O/S X - Executive and Analysts
Light Proposals, reports, spreadsheets, business graphics, databases, scheduling, e-mail, fax/communications, presentations 128MB
Medium Complex presentations, sales/market analysis, project management, Internet access 256MB
Heavy Statistical applications, large databases, research/technical analysis, complex presentations, video conferencing 512MB


Macintosh® O/S X - Engineers and Designers
Light Page layout, 2-4 color line drawings, simple image manipulation, simple graphics 128 - 256MB
Medium 2D CAD, multimedia presentations, simple photo-editing, web development 256 - 1GB
Heavy Animation, complex photo-editing,
real-time video, 3D CAD, solid modeling, finite element analysis		 1GB+

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