| Re: How to get a very large 2D projected surface image [message #51911 is a reply to message #51910] |
Mon, 11 December 2006 12:26   |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:44:27 -0700, David Fanning wrote:
> JD Smith writes:
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>> But it's "easy" to stitch up a couple hundred of these ;).
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> I'm shopping for a new computer right now. Anyone know where I can get a
> cheap Mac with 16 GByte of RAM?
Never buy your memory from Apple... they add a big mark-up. Sadly the
fancy SDRAM they use in the Mac Pro is somewhat costlier than normal
RAM, but still, for 16GB you can save roughly $2.5K by going 3rd
party.
Before you warm up the credit card, though, keep in mind that IDL
still has not been shipped as a 64bit version for OSX, which would
allow you to *use* that 16GB. Given that Apple has been at 64bits for
more than 3 years with the introduction of the G5, it's not clear what
the hold-up is. There have been various claims that OSX doesn't
"fully support 64bit apps", but this isn't entirely the case. It's
true, the GUI layers won't be 64-bit compatible until Leopard next
Spring, but IDL doesn't use Aqua or any other OSX goodness. IDL could
have been moved over to 64bit more than 2 years ago, compiling against
a 64bit X11 library like Xorg's. Hopefully the next version.
JD
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