xp 64 bit and ram

[System 47]

i have an acer with XP64 & 4gb DDR3 ram. i also stripped out XP and installed NO updates.

including Ableton & Sound Forge & all my plug ins, my ENTIRE OS is less than 4.5gb & it runs like a speed freak with a tail wind.

my XP64 desktop has 8bg matched DDR3 & it is brutal fast. when your not up to your eyeballs in virus crap &




as for your mac, lets hope ya dont need to put a file bigger than 4.5 gb on it.. good luck with that ;0)

[ritaheed]

as for your mac, lets hope ya dont need to put a file bigger than 4.5 gb on it.. good luck with that ;0)

how what ye mean?

[rhythmtech]

how what ye mean?

its one of the biggest downfalls of mac. the rely on the fat32 file type and are limited on file size. windoze can use NTFS which has no restrictions.

but unless you're working with film or huge graphics you'll never encounter an issue with it.

...that is except for looking like a wannabe be scenester for owning a mac

[ritaheed]

its one of the biggest downfalls of mac. the rely on the fat32 file type and are limited on file size. windoze can use NTFS which has no restrictions.

but unless you're working with film or huge graphics you'll never encounter an issue with it.

...that is except for looking like a wannabe be scenester for owning a mac

what about when exporting my tracks to get mixed down - ma last tune was 3.6gb

and im going to need to transfer all my shit from my external hard drive to the mac and thats 500gb - what am i going to then?

a thought a mac was untouchable!! lol

[rhythmtech]

its individual file sizes. if you have a 500gb folder it doesnt matter. its the seperate file sizes inside that it goes by.

im not sure how it would work for a large zip or ISO. you'd probably need to make splits.

[teknorich]

I didn't know Macs used FAT32. Seems bizarrely self-limiting, as Windows introduced NFTS years ago to overcome that issue.

[rhythmtech]

I didn't know Macs used FAT32. Seems bizarrely self-limiting, as Windows introduced NFTS years ago to overcome that issue.

its a little bit silly alright and it has caused problems for me in the past on post production work for video transfers but its not that often i encounter it.

im sure there is probably a workaround but not being a mac user i havent a clue.. and to be honest it might not even be an issue these days.

[TvSkY]

its one of the biggest downfalls of mac. the rely on the fat32 file type and are limited on file size. windoze can use NTFS which has no restrictions.

but unless you're working with film or huge graphics you'll never encounter an issue with it.

...that is except for looking like a wannabe be scenester for owning a mac

pretty sure macs use HFS+ file system which supports files up to 8 exabytes

unless you mean for exporting/transfer data to other systems

[rhythmtech]

pretty sure macs use HFS+ file system which supports files up to 8 exabytes

unless you mean for exporting/transfer data to other systems

maybe they do now. like i said im no mac fanboy but the older ones were always a problem with large video files.