Bummer - went to the Apple shop after lunch ...

[AtW]

Do your business investors know you're wasting time on here? Get back in the server room and do some more ineffective programming, now!

Yes boss!

[DaveB]

Slightly back on topic, has anyone tried the Apple Wireless keyboard?

I have the standard wired jobbie on my iMac but I'm thinking of going for a Pro and wanted a seperate keyboard for it for the office at home.

[eek]

Because most people don't need 16 gig of ram, unless you're doing 3d modelling or running lots of virtual machines at once it's overkill, and it would mean a more expensive motherboard for little kudos

The Oracle BI virtual machines hate having less than 8gb of ram. While I know its not the greatest example SQL server has similar desires.

[sasguru]

Slightly back on topic, has anyone tried the Apple Wireless keyboard?

I have the standard wired jobbie on my iMac but I'm thinking of going for a Pro and wanted a seperate keyboard for it for the office at home.

Yes I do for my Imac. Thought all Imacs came with a wireless keyboard?

It takes some getting used to but ok after a while

[amcdonald]

The Oracle BI virtual machines hate having less than 8gb of ram. While I know its not the greatest example SQL server has similar desires.

True but I usually access SQL Server remotely on a clients server so its irrelevant

8gig was the most I could get in an INKSPE laptop, and running VMware it's not been a problem

It depends on your usage, to me if I needed 16gig I'd get it but since I've only just replaced my aging laptop that I quite happily run under XP with 2gig of RAM, even 8 seems like a luxury

Oracle I can understand, it's bloatware. Then it could be worse, it could be SAP

[Spacecadet]

The Oracle BI virtual machines hate having less than 8gb of ram. While I know its not the greatest example SQL server has similar desires.

Since when? I've ran them perfectly well on less

[eek]

Since when? I've ran them perfectly well on less

Depends on the size of the database and what you are doing in it.

If you run compiled code within it, it does get rather fussy mind you that could be down to the hyperthreading bug they removed in SQL 2000 and reintroduced into 2005 and 2008.

[Spacecadet]

Depends on the size of the database and what you are doing in it.

If you run compiled code within it, it does get rather fussy mind you that could be down to the hyperthreading bug they removed in SQL 2000 and reintroduced into 2005 and 2008.

So SQL Server doesn't desire that much then (except for the bug)

[Durbs]

As this is an Apple thread and we dont have a for sale section i'm flogging my Intel Mac Mini to fund bits for my new PC:

Core2Duo 1.82 GHz, 2GB memory, good nick, all original packaging/cabling with original Leopard disk and Snow Leopard upgrade disk.

Lovely little thing, quick and quiet and runs XCode a treat. also had Win 7 running on it at one stage and that also ran sweet.

dont want to flog via eBay as its full of scammer bellends so anyone who PM's me with the best offer around or above £200 and can pay by Paypal secures it.

[DaveB]

Yes I do for my Imac. Thought all Imacs came with a wireless keyboard?

It takes some getting used to but ok after a while

Mine is a few years old now, hence looking to replace it. I like the wired keyboard, not sure yet about the smaller wireless version.