How’s your RAM going?

08 September 2005 · 1 comment

After almost 20 years of using Macs I’ve learned to always install as much RAM as I possibly can in any machine I use. My G4 Powerbook is maxed out at 2 Gigabytes. I’ve believed this is plenty for all the applications I run at any given moment, but now I’m not entirely sure. Yesterday [...]

 

After almost 20 years of using Macs I’ve learned to always install as much RAM as I possibly can in any machine I use. My G4 Powerbook is maxed out at 2 Gigabytes. I’ve believed this is plenty for all the applications I run at any given moment, but now I’m not entirely sure.

Yesterday I downloaded Matt Neuburg’s free MemoryStick which provides a graphical display of your RAM usage under Mac OS X. You can instantly see how full your RAM is getting.

The Help file is useful and explains pageouts and fixed memory and the like, so now I can see that even with only a few applications open my RAM ‘disappears’ alarmingly. So, when, I wonder, will there be a new Powerbook for me — faster and with more RAM?

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erlewein 09 September 2005 at 09:21 59

RAM is like money. Can never have enough of either!

With the current technology on the market we’re still pretty much limited at 4Gb max. Only the next generations of 64bit processors will deal with this problem. And as you are well aware, this might still take a while for the PowerBook range.

Cheers Oliver

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