Why OSX is better, reason two: No more juggling ram

I don’t have to play the ram game. Using OS 9 was a constant ram game. And yes, as ram became cheaper it was not as much of a concern. Still, even with 256mb of ram when doing something that involves Photoshop, Quark, and Distiller I still found myself having to close things, or change the ram allocation of programs.  Now, with OS X I have the following applications set to start-up on login, Photoshop, Imageready, Illustrator, Font Reserve, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, Internet Explorer, Ichat, Bbedit, Flash, and Acrobat. It doesn’t matter that I may not use an application for a week, its just ready for me when I need it. Of course it does take time for these apps to boot but because of multi-tasking it doesn’t matter. While they are opening I can easily jump into the app I need, OS X even lets me configure the order that apps can start up in so that if I know the first thing I want to do is check the web I can have IE open first.  It may seem absurd to open all these apps at once, and in the OS 9 paradigm where you have to restart multiple times a day it is. But because I only ever restart my machine when I install something new that requires it this simply isn’t a concern in OS X.  X doesn’t require me to enter in all the ram requirements for each app; it just intelligently manages things, giving ram to the application in use. If I were to open up this many apps in OS 9 my machine would probably last 30 minutes at best before crashing.