Why? Well, for one thing, I've got a 70MB Ram disk for holding a copy of my system folder and most memory intensive applications. This gives me a tremendously noticable increase in processing speed and I still have 70 MB of memory left over.
Keeping a copy of the System Folder and current application in the Ram Disk basically makes you fly. Imagine performing DataBase Searches in 1/2 the time your it normally takes. Not to mention the unadulterated joy at having just about any and every application open at the same time. What this does for PhotoShop and other graphics-intensive application is the stuff of dreams.
The 64MBs don't come cheap. Expect street prices to reach $2500 per before the end of April. Of course, if you're one of the lucky ones that charges by the second for animation (or some other form of high-margin, decrepidly slow processing service), you'll quickly fall in love with the savings in production costs realized in time savings.
Currently available for the PowerMac 6100 only. PowerMac 7100 & 8100 versions are due to ship in a few weeks. We expect to begin seeing 128MB simms in mid to late summer. On an 8100, this could mead 1GB RAM with 9GB or greater hard drives and a 200MHz chip with-in the year. Talk about an ugly, screaming monster. This kind of configuration could make Godzilla set up and tremble.
Regardless, 64MB simms begin to open the door for application specs that were only dreamed of until now.
For the sake of speed, reliability and just plain old competitive advantage we wholeheartedly recommend this level of upgrade.
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