Can Illustrator really make use of 8GB RAM?

Hello,
I'm thinking of upgrading my 17" 2010 Core i7 Macbook Pro from the curretn 4GB of RAM to 8GB or RAM as the prices have come down considerably. (around £40.00).
I've already posted a thread on a mac forum, but I thought that posting in on here would also be benificial.
Basically I would like to know is, is there any point doubling the RAM? Can Illustrator realy utilise 8GB of RAM? My files are becoming larger and so Illustrator runs slower - I've monitered this in Activity monitor and the pages in/out seem to have a 10% difference which is apparantley a indication of more RAM needed. I've also seen a few 'Not enough memory' messages in Illustrator.
Thanks for your input.
Nathan

Illustrator on the Mac is a 32Bit app currently. It can only utilize ~3GB of RAM. Hopefully, since Illustrator is one of the last remaining non-64Bit Adobe apps, that'll change in the near future. If you are buying for performance today.. it won't make any differnce. If you are buying for performance next year or 6 months from now, it may make a world of differnce.
You can still launch and use Illustrator on a 64bit system (I do every day) but it won't see any additional RAM. That does not mean more RAM isn't helpful. Illustrator can use it's ~3GB and the OS cna utilise the rest. This does make things faster even if Illustrator is still limited. In addition, I don't know any Mac users that use Illustrator and do not use Photoshop. Photoshop is a 64bit app and will use as much RAM as you feed it.

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