when one adds another 256 or RAM to there harddrive, what exactly should be different with the computer? how should the computer work differently? and what about the whole Megahertz thing too?
when one adds another 256 or RAM to there harddrive, what exactly should be different with the computer? how should the computer work differently? and what about the whole Megahertz thing too?
It speeds things up if the amount of RAM that you have already isn't enough for the applications you want to run.
Click the System Memory tab of Activity Monitor in the Applications/Utilities folder and look at where it says "Page ins/outs". If the pageouts are low or zero, more RAM probably won't make much difference.
Or you can just open the Terminal and type vm_stat and look at the last line, which is the pageouts.
If you currently have 256MB or 512MB of RAM, then 256MB more will make your computer much faster. If you already have 1GB of RAM, the speed increase will be less noticeable.
With more memory, your computer will be faster at switching between windows or working on large documents.
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Originally posted by ducaticanine
when one adds another 256 or RAM to there harddrive, what exactly should be different with the computer? how should the computer work differently? and what about the whole Megahertz thing too?
It speeds things up if the amount of RAM that you have already isn't enough for the applications you want to run.
Click the System Memory tab of Activity Monitor in the Applications/Utilities folder and look at where it says "Page ins/outs". If the pageouts are low or zero, more RAM probably won't make much difference.
Or you can just open the Terminal and type vm_stat and look at the last line, which is the pageouts.
With more memory, your computer will be faster at switching between windows or working on large documents.