How Much RAM????

I am a Pentium 4 laptop owner, and have been interested in anything APPLE for 10 months now. I am into heavy video editing and photography, as well as web design. Since I never owned a mac, I don't own any apps that are POWER PC native, and I don't think I'll buy Adobe products untill they are universal in CS3. Nontheless, I want a FAST system, and be able to multitask. How much RAM do you suggest I put into this beast....and in what pairs (i.e. 2 x 2GB etc.) Thanks a lot,
Michael

If I were to go back in my Time Machine to June 2003, just as the G5 was announced, there was a dearth of DDR400/PC3200 and 1GB chips that worked were hard to come by , and sometimes lead to incompatibilities and the need for "matched pairs" in particular.
Maybe in a year some "Mac Pro II" (well, that brings back memories of IIx and IIfx memory as well and doubt we'll see that name used anytime again), as long as the Mac Pro is tied to Xeon then ECC is probably a given but...
does anyone know the size of the market using FB-DIMMs like these? sure there are some server farms with TBs of memory, but 4 million Mac Pro users might get some real marketing attention too.
The "sweat spot" for many G5 owners even with lite use as a general desktop computer was 1.5GB RAM due to the way G5 code is written and laid out in RAM. I wonder, outside of Rosetta, if the Pro has as much of an appetite.
3GB might - for now - be that "sweat spot". With more for any apps that are memory-hungry. Having to spend $800 on memory might keep more than a few people on the side-lines, so it really is in Apple's interest that RAM prices decline to help the Christmas shoppers.
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