Multimedia becomes a standard in today’s computing, with personal computers or handhelds. The main problems of multimedia are: real-time processing, and big data! Processor’s speed is getting faster and faster by the day, so the “real-time processing” demand is not a problem anymore. The big data is just a little problem with today’s storage media. [...]

Today’s Apple Macs is shipped with big enough capacity of memory (RAM). A gigabyte (1 GB) or two gigabytes (2 GB) are by standard default configuration. Two (gigabytes) is good enough for a daily computing. Prior Macs, just “bundled” with a half gigabyte (512 MB) or just a gigabytes of RAM.
For today’s modern operating system [...]