The last time I bought 16 meg 30 pin SIMMs, they were less than $10 apiece. That's still not dirt cheap, but it's not bad, especially since you'll never need to replace them. I think it cost $60 for all eight.
Mac OS doesn't need that much memory, but aside from the memory test, it certainly doesn't hurt. If you prefer to not reboot often, it's all the better that applications can open with the full amount of memory they want and memory fragmentation isn't an issue.
I'm in the market for sixteen 16 meg 30 pin SIMMs for the Amiga version of the SE/30 - the original Amiga 3000. It has a FastLane Z3 which can take up to 256 megs. Do I need it? No. Do I want to max it out just so it's maxed out? Yes. I doubt I'll be trying to build gcc on it any time soon, which so far is the only thing that absolutely won't work with less than 256 megs. It might be an interesting experiment to see how many weeks it'd take, though...
Mac OS doesn't need that much memory, but aside from the memory test, it certainly doesn't hurt. If you prefer to not reboot often, it's all the better that applications can open with the full amount of memory they want and memory fragmentation isn't an issue.
I'm in the market for sixteen 16 meg 30 pin SIMMs for the Amiga version of the SE/30 - the original Amiga 3000. It has a FastLane Z3 which can take up to 256 megs. Do I need it? No. Do I want to max it out just so it's maxed out? Yes. I doubt I'll be trying to build gcc on it any time soon, which so far is the only thing that absolutely won't work with less than 256 megs. It might be an interesting experiment to see how many weeks it'd take, though...