applerulez67 (September 4, 2008 at 8:37 am)

My system can remap the MMIO! Yours can't, you fucking PC users! Stay with 3.2 Gigs, you fucker, stay! :D I love UNIX and the way Intel and Apple cooperate. Mac OS X PWNS Windows

applerulez67 (September 4, 2008 at 8:33 am)

As you may probably know, even if the architecture of the Xeon Woodcrest made it a full 64-bit processor, the chipset still used 32 bit. And now, with Santa Rosa and Montevina, Intel gave Apple the possibilty to remap the MMIO. Do you remember that strange "3 Gb limit" on MacBooks? Well, it was due to the 3.2 Gb MMIO limit. Never mind: Santa Rosa is 64-bit and Leopard is 64-bit. That's an M$'s problem. :P ps With PowerPC maybe this wouldn't happen, but now everything works fine.

applerulez67 (September 4, 2008 at 8:24 am)

Actually Mac OS X can virtually handle 16TB of RAM, but Intel chipsets prior to Montevina had a problem due to something called MMIO; in simple words, for every 4 Gb of RAM, the chipset could address just 3.2 Gb. Of course Apple fixed it as soon as it could, Microsoft didn't fix it, plus for people with a GPU with +512Mb of dedicated RAM, for every 4 Gb Windows can adress just 2.3 Gb. Now with Montevina and Leopard, Intel solved the problem with Apple. Now you can address 4Gb on 4 Gb.

HearMeNow13 (August 30, 2008 at 6:45 pm)

lol 64 gigs

amistrymister (August 26, 2008 at 1:13 pm)

Exactly. Short and to the point lol. Erm yes...

Eggyrocks1 (August 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm)

Exactly.

amistrymister (August 25, 2008 at 3:45 pm)

LOL! THat made me laugh. You have a very good point! 40% no way! 20 maybe!

Eggyrocks1 (August 25, 2008 at 1:11 pm)

32GB is unnecessary. I'll set ya' a challenge should I? Go buy one with 32GB of RAM and see if you can even use 40% of it, never mind the full. I find it amusing that someone would pay that amount of money for 32GB of RAM & a PC Name me "plenty of people who DO need it" please. I'll get in contact with, visit their home, and test your theory. "or to run OSX Server" I'm was talking about HOME USAGE. Also, I didn't ask YOU anything. If you had Common sense, you'd understand why I put "lol" Pfft.

unlokia (August 24, 2008 at 11:04 pm)

You have a 250Gb drive?... you are stuck in the past!. No wonder you cannot fathom out why!.

unlokia (August 24, 2008 at 11:03 pm)

Obviously YOU don't know why 32Gb is necessary, otherwise you wouldn't have asked. Obviously there are PLENTY of people who DO need it (3D Rendering, 3DS Max, Maya etc etc) or to run OSX Server... otherwise it wouldn't have that capability, would it?. Try broadening your horizons, and reducing the "lol" comments. :)