12,000,000,000 isn’t enough?

[fbhjr]

My first computer had 512,000 of memory, and was considered pretty good at
the time.
A year later I updated it to 1,024,000 memory, which was amazing.  There
were magazine articles out at the time saying “here’s what to do with all
that memory.”
So, when my new designer came to me and told me that twelve thousand times
more wasn’t enough to open his files, I was a bit surprised.
Twelve billion isn’t enough?
But, we are dealing with files that are very large.  Let’s face it, I’ve
got apps on my iPad that are bigger on their own than all the floppy disks
I owned in 1986 put together.
So, I doubled his memory and he tells me it is much better now.
That’s good, but I still boggle at how far computers have come in terms of
adding zeroes, but still run slow.

Comments

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

yup. I too am astonished at how memory and performance has improved in only the last couple of years.

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Solidworks?


At one of my client's offices (the welding and plasma cutting people) the mechanical engineer doing the ehatsink and package designing had 24 GB of RAM in his workstation, and still the thermal model simulations would take most of a day to complete.

[zemanel.livejournal.com]

I recently added 4Gigs to my laptop, huge performance upgrade, turns out that my normal browser usage alone sucks up about 5-6 Gigs.
I suppose I could try to have less tabs open, but I like having tons of tabs open, so totally worth the $20 and 2 minutes of my time to double my RAM.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it isn't worth doubling it.
I'm just amazed what double is these days.

On another note: long time no see. How are you doing?

[zemanel.livejournal.com]

OK, just got myself extended for FY13, so I'll be in Italy for another year. The work is interesting and the money is good, but it's tough being away from my girls.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I have seen your adventures on Facebook. So, I know some of the stuff you're doing.
And, it looked like you got to see you wife and daughters this summer. So, that must have been nice.

Another year away is rough though. Especially with the girls so young.

[zemanel.livejournal.com]

They spent a good chunk of the Summer over here, we got to travel around Italy, hop over to Munich, Prague, Barcelona, Lisbon and Paris, so not a bad family vacation.

No complaints on the Summer, just not as much fun coming home to an empty house now that they're back home.

[zemanel.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about memory sizes though, I've gotten a couple of 64 Gig sticks, which since they're USB2.0 are now obsolete, so they cost under $40, just blows my mind that we're paying some 50¢ per Gig.

I'm also waiting for a new hard drive for this laptop, I decided it wasn't worth going to a full solid state drive, which are still too expensive, since it's an old obsolete laptop, so I'm adding a cheap 750 Gig hybrid drive which cost about 15¢ per Gig.