FCP X Crashes - Is Brute Force the Answer? (The Sequel)

Question

I thought it would be worth following up on my recent post:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3401883 with a fresh update.
Despite the scathing comments from some of the 'experts' who surely know much better than me, it would seem that increasing RAM is the best investment you can possibly make if you want a stable FCP X.
I'm currently editing video from early morning until late at night and since investing in an extra 8GB RAM, I've had virtually no unexplained crashes at all.
(By unexplained, I mean that even the 'hallowed' FCP 7 would crash if I did some complex thing and then hit Undo, then Redo etc - with six other applications open at the time - no software as sophisticated as FCP X is 100% crash-proof).
Happily, FCP X is now really stable, and apart from smiling at some of its quirks, I'm virtually up to full production with it.
I'm not saying it's a good thing that you should need so much RAM, but if you'd rather get on with your work than spend hours ranting on the forums, it's worth the investment.
Of course, the added bonus is the staggering increase in the speed of many operations. I always thought processor power was king, but I realise now, that RAM is just as important.
Andy

Answer 1

furrytoes wrote:
So all the crashes you're getting, every single one, could just be a plain-old bug in the software - for which more RAM has no effect.
This is a distinct possibilty, and I think it should be entertained before recommending anyone buy more RAM.
Agreed... (almost)  here's the thing, a well written application should NOT crash because it becomes low on RAM, in this day and age crashing the computer when a memory limitation is reached should be considered very poor programming... especially from Apple.
Apple users are just now beginning to see the problems that Win/PC users have faced, OS and application support for a growing number of hardware configurations. Part of the instability is OSX, part is FCPX. This is happening along the most of the Pro Apps line. The OS and applications have to support several diffrent kinds of motherboards, memory configs, graphic chipsets, displays...etc...etc. Apple will probably do what it usually does limit what the app will run on, forcing upgrades (whether you really need one or not)  Hey, they're a hardware company.
Apple probably has to support less than 100 configurations throughout their whole product line, consider that Windows has to support thousands of combinations and you see the problems faced.
Anyway.. some people have massive problems.. some have hardly any, RAM may be part of the problem but I would look at application and OSX support of the available hardware configs.
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