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Re: Thinking of buying a Mac Mini for Morph OS - Questions
« on: July 01, 2010, 12:45:20 PM »
My eMac came with 256MiB of ram, last night I upgraded it to 1.5GiB of ram and I can't tell the difference.
 

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Re: Thinking of buying a Mac Mini for Morph OS - Questions
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2010, 02:56:42 PM »
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Yeah, the difference would only appear if you'd run out of memory. That's not totally unheard of, at least if you like to use Ram Disk a lot. It clearly depends on the stuff you do.


Not knowing anything about the underlying architecture of MorphOS, I wasn't sure if adding the extra ram would increase the performance any. On OS X trying to use the system with 256 is a waste of time, even though it's not swapping. I'd never even consider using OS X without at least 1 GiB of ram. Don't some of these operating system kernels use the extra ram available for caches and/or use different algorithms for things where the extra memory available is more optimal? And I'm not complaining either, the performance of MorphOS is excellent. It boots in seconds, OWB loads in like a second and plays youtube videos on the machine without a hitch. Got the SDK issue ironed out so all the familiar tools are available. I'm a happy guy, I've been using the machine a lot.

One thing I've noticed though, if the screen resolution is high enough, when a window get stretched out after a certain length, it starts to lag on the stretch operation. What's the cause of that?
 

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Re: Thinking of buying a Mac Mini for Morph OS - Questions
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2010, 04:58:11 PM »
What are y'all using the ram disk for? I see it there but never thought to use it for anything.
 

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Re: Thinking of buying a Mac Mini for Morph OS - Questions
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2010, 07:30:34 PM »
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I download files there before copying them to HD (SFS framgents too badly if you have simultaneus downloads or if I don't want to keep downloaded file anyway (like some crap videos etc you are mistaken to dl)).

I unpack program archives there for installing (useless to have them on HD if it has separate installer).

I give test run for unpacked games etc from ram: if they are worth to keep or not (useless copies to HD again if I only want to run it once and get rid off it after that).

I throw all kinds of temp/test files there (image/video/audio processing stages)... etc.. :)


Awesome. I never would have thought to do that. The archives seem to unpack a lot faster to the ram disk. Something to use all that extra ram I stuffed in there last night. :)
 

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Re: Thinking of buying a Mac Mini for Morph OS - Questions
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2010, 10:40:24 PM »
Can you use the same keyfile on multiple macs, or is the license per machine?