presumably he has the maximum memory in whatever machine he uses. he's a billionaire, for chrissake.
even with a Mac you need 2GB for satisfactory performance, just for browsing (admittedly, with 30 or so tabs open :), itunes, and five or ten PDFs.
just looking at my machine now (the cheapest Macbook), there are maybe 50 tabs open across ten browser windows (Camino and Safari), along with 15 PDFs (14 Preview and 1 Adobe due to requirement for secure doc), four or five Excel files, Mail, iCal, NetNewsWire, and other little apps, and itunes. the last time i booted was a couple weeks ago, and in the meantime i've opened and closed it, put it to sleep and woken up, used it on probably 10-15 Wifi nets, on battery power and off--nothing causes any problems. i haven't needed to close a window. this on 2GB RAM on a cheap Macbook. this would be inconceivable on a PC. i used to try to run the same load on 1GB RAM on the Mac, but it would bog down after a few days and i'd need to reboot. not anymore. probably 1 terabyte of RAM would allow you the same freedom on a PC.
another nice thing about the Mac is Preview. i hate Adobe Reader, it's so big and slow.
Cuban should just switch to gmail and then he could forget his PC. |
