Is 4GB ram enough for the 2.93 imac?

I'm buying a imac 2.93 gh, 4Gb ram, 640 hd. How much ram does the OS 10.5 use? How can I find this info?

I am currently running 4gb ram on a G5 dual 2.0
and am thinking about moving to imac 2.93.
Will I see much difference in performance?
How about performance difference between imac vs ppc on snow leopard?
I usually run at same time:
- safari
- mail
- ichat
- together
- The Hit List
- MacJournal
- NetNewsWire
- pages
I also run very frequently and sometimes at same time as above...
- iphoto
- itunes
Periodically I get a lot of page outs
but I haven't been able to detect a pattern as to why.
Does it seem like 4gb Ram will do ok with this on the imac?
I keep trying to find an article on how memory is handled in new imacs as opposed to how it was handled in ppc...any suggestions where I could read about this?
thanks.

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Cinebench: i5: 11.13fps, i7:11.54fps (+4%)
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I'm contemplating buying a new iMac. I see that the new iMacs come with 4GB of RAM installed. Is that enough for running programs like Pages, Numbers, iMovie, iDVD, Finale (music notation software), Toast, iTunes... as well as the usual web browsers and Mail.
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It used to be that the amount of RAM pre-installed was never enough. Is this still a truism?

Paul SanGregory wrote:
It used to be that the amount of RAM pre-installed was never enough. Is this still a truism?
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[svn:fx-trunk] 12007: When the Internet Explorer browser window is obscured Stage. width and Stage.height never return the proper sizes until/ unless the IE window is unobscured long enough for the player to feel it needs to render initially .

Revision: 12007
Revision: 12007
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-19 12:45:27 -0800 (Thu, 19 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
When the Internet Explorer browser window is obscured Stage.width and Stage.height never return the proper sizes until/unless the IE window is unobscured long enough for the player to feel it needs to render initially. This was preventing our preloader from completing, since we were waiting for a non-0 Stage size. Took a slightly different approach to solving the bug for which the original logic was added to work around.
QE notes: None
Doc notes: None
Bugs: SDK-24191
Reviewer: Alex, Evtim
Tests run: Checkin
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/non-0
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24191
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/SystemManager.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/preloaders/Preloader.as

Revision: 12007
Revision: 12007
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-19 12:45:27 -0800 (Thu, 19 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
When the Internet Explorer browser window is obscured Stage.width and Stage.height never return the proper sizes until/unless the IE window is unobscured long enough for the player to feel it needs to render initially. This was preventing our preloader from completing, since we were waiting for a non-0 Stage size. Took a slightly different approach to solving the bug for which the original logic was added to work around.
QE notes: None
Doc notes: None
Bugs: SDK-24191
Reviewer: Alex, Evtim
Tests run: Checkin
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/non-0
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24191
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/managers/SystemManager.as
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