How much memory do you think I'll want?

I've never owned an Apple machine, but I've been looking at buying a laptop for a long time and am considering the new 13-inch Macbook. I know 512 MB is too little for OS X, so I'm trying to gauge whether I'd want 1 GB or 2 GB of RAM.
I'll be downloading my digital camera photos, etc, and maybe even messing with a little digital video one day. I'm also a software developer by trade, but I don't see myself wanting to do work with this machine for the forseeable future, although I'm wondering if the machine would get sluggish if I tried to load up Eclipse and Tomcat on 1 GB of RAM. Like I said, I really expect to just be browsing the web with it most of the time and don't plan on using it for my job or anything like that, so I'm willing to put up with any reasonable drop in performance as long as it's not painful!
And one more thing: is the RAM sold by Crucial actually different from the sticks sold by Apple?
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I bought a Mac mini and thanks to a shipping error my RAM upgrade arrive 4 days later so I had plenty of time to play with the stock machine before upgrading it to 1 GB. I found that one memory hog PPC program and Rosetta could pretty much take up all the memory that the OS wasn't using. Running Word and Photoshop Elements 4 didn't make either program run slower (to my perception) but there was a noticeable lag switching from one to the other. Add Safari and Mail and you could feel the machine slow down.
But while running just Universal apps I found that 512 was a decent amount of RAM. In other words, I could have Safari, Mail, Pages, and iWeb running and the computer just jogged along like a little trouper.
Once the upgrade was installed the computer literally became another animal. Running multiple PPC applications didn't faze it. I eventually forced it to the wall but the combination of programs and activities weren't something I'd ordinarily do. Typical for me is Safari, Entourage, Filemaker, iPulse, DragThing, SpamSieve, QuicKeys, Pages, and iTunes. The mini with 1 MB is happy with that.

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dagdagdag123 wrote:
Got my iPhone 4. Luckily, it works perfectly so far.
But I do think the phone looks much more fragile and breakable than my old 3G.
Now, I don't mind a thin, attractive case because I'm slightly clutzy and it's gonna drop out of my pocket a few times, this I know.
So I bought a case from a mall vendor that's no name but seems well made -- thin silicone that covers the back and the sides. $15. Do I need to do better?
My question(s) to everyone are... how thick and sturdy do you think we need to go to protect the iphone 4 from a drop? And what is the best case material for withstanding a fall? Is there something you've found that is not too bulky and industrial looking -- or does it need to be thick and padded to be truly protective?
And can I avoid spending $30 on a case (or that Apple bumper thing) and feel like my phone is protected?
I know nothing about this stuff so would love some opinions. Thanks!
I went for this one, the black and blue:
http://ifrogz.com/

With my current setup how much ram do you think I would be using up?

Hey Apple Community!!!!! Recently bought my first Apple Product, a couple months back bought a 13in Macbook Pro and so far I love it but recently have been having some wierd issues. I am a Green Horn with a capital "G" when it comes to apple software so I am not sure where to even begin.
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when it says your capacity is 6.43 GB does that mean how much memory you have used up or how much you have left

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How much memory/space are Mac Apps Taking?

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You can do this:
I know this is probably a very simple question for you experts but as a newbie, I dont know how to figure it out. Im trying to find out how much hard drive space (and maybe memory?) the apps I have downloaded from the Mac App Store are taking up? Where would I find this? Ive looked in the Finder but couldnt find what I was looking for? Does the Activity Moniitor or something else break it down to just the Mac Apps?
To find out how much hard drive space (or how large the App is), Right-Click on the App in your Applications folder and choose Get Info. This will show you xx MBs on Disk (hard drive). To see how much memory the App is using, check Activity Monitor while the App is running. It will be on the list of all processes running.
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Using Oracle 10g on RHEL 5.3.
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Thanks Guys,
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If I will be using my iPad primarily for iBooks (a couple hundred ibooks) and iWork documents (maybe 100 different documents), how much memory will I need?
Right now, I have about 7gb worth of music, photos, and apps on my iPhone.
Also, if I subscribe to video podcasts, will that take a lot of memory as well?
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KC eh? I live near the area :P anyway, I would recommend 16GB. I'm debating as well but I'm going to get the 32GB version as I plan to watch movies/TV shows on mine. They do take up some space. I've been getting by on my iPhone 3G which has 8GB but now I wish I had more... I think this would be the case for me and the iPad as well so I'm getting 32GB.
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Hi opera_rocker
I think that you may have found yourself in a little bit of a pickle regarding technical hardware terms, so I'll try and clear things up for you.
The Mac Mini comes as standard with 512MB of RAM (Read Only Memory). RAM is a little stick that is built into the computer that supplies the software with all the virtual memory that it needs to accomplish tasks. The more RAM that you have in your computer, the faster software will run, and the more things you can have going on at the same time. You never actualy use RAM for personal files and folders. The Mac Mini will accept a total of 2GB of RAM, which comes as an optional upgrade from Apple, however, 1GB is more than adequate.
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How much memory (in buffers) is needed for a simple webservice's call?

Dear expert,
I'm doing a research work about analysing the main memory usage in SAP ERP systems.
I would like to find out the space that a simple webservice's call occupies in the buffers, but there is always something occupying the buffers. I know that my call to get the values occupies memory, that's why I use a webservice to get them (to avoid the SAPGUI), I call first $SYNC and I use a BAPI similar to the transaction ST02.
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> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:27:50 -0600
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To: [email protected]
Subject: How much memory (RAM) is needed for Elements 9 to automatically fill in the edges when using photome
The key to successful use of edge fill is to ensure that you've got all the memory allocated to PSE that you can and that the file that results after you merge the panoramic is not too big. When PSE 9 first came out about a year ago, I fooled around with file sizes and I think that on my particular computer the merged file had to be no larger than 20 megs for edge fill to work. I did a quick search through this forum's history but I couldn't find my posts. Maybe somebody else can find them.
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How much memory does Tiger and Leopold use?

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How much memory do both Tiger and Leopold require themselves to run?

hotcheese wrote:
How much memory do both Tiger and Leopold require themselves to run?
Not much. I've run Tiger and Leopard with only 512 MB (1 GB machine with
512 MB for OS-X and 512 MB allocated to a virtual machine running Win XP).
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(2) I will buy the memory from Crucial. Should I remove the original memory and use only the Crucial 1GB pairs, so they are matched?
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No need to remove the original RAM.
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