[OS X TeX] Large Figure in Document? (and slow response of TeXShop)

[Gerben Wierda]

On 13 Nov 2005, at 10:59, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> 512MB of RAM seems to be ridiculously low. When my machine has  
> started up about 700MB are immediately used and my experience with  
> various G4 and G5 have convinced me that 1.5GB should be the  
> minimum amount of RAM for a fairly smooth behaviour of your  
> computer. If you perform memory intensive tasks, however,  this  
> amount won't be sufficient.

I think this is incorrect. 512MB should be more than enough to run  
Mac OS X 10.4 and a TeX run under TeXShop.

G
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