Memory Hog!! please help

aidenzralka · aidenzralka #1 (**permalink**)

03-05-2010, 12:21 PM

Hi All

I have a unibody, 13", Alu macbook with 2 gb of ram. I upgraded to Snow leopard 5 months ago. I completely wiped the hard-rive and installed it fresh. Everything worked fine but recently I have noticed some slow down, because of this, I wanted to start fresh (and i have a lot of photography work coming up). I reinstalled as normal and now my mac is really hogging memory. Having a blank microsoft word window open is using 180mb, firefox is using 300. Right now iam using 1.18gb of memory and i only have word,firefox and sportify open. The CPU is fine and is always low. I have looked for answers online, a lot of people say go back to leopard, but i dont see why i should, my mac is reasonable new and the os is up to date. |If anyone could shed some light that would be much appreciated.

Regards

Aiden

McBie · McBie #2 (**permalink**)

03-05-2010, 12:45 PM

I would add another 2 gig of RAM, that will make a world of difference for you.

Cheers ... McBie

pigoo3 · pigoo3 #3 (**permalink**)

03-05-2010, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aidenzralka

Hi All

Having a blank microsoft word window open is using 180mb,

I don't think you're experiencing anything unusual. I just opened MS Word (Office 2008) and it's using 210meg of ram compared to your 180meg.

If you truly are experiencing some performance issues...like "McBie" suggested...upgrade the ram in your laptop.

- Nick

aidenzralka · aidenzralka #4 (**permalink**)

03-05-2010, 01:14 PM

hey thanks for the feedback. i think i shall buy some more ram

McBie #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 26, 2008 Location: Belgium Posts: 1,836 Mac Specs: 2008 MBP 17" - 10.8.2 & iPad - iOS 5.1	03-05-2010, 12:45 PM I would add another 2 gig of RAM, that will make a world of difference for you. Cheers ... McBie " Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. " A. Einstein The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude towards the problem. You understand ?
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aidenzralka #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 17, 2009 Posts: 22	03-05-2010, 12:21 PM Hi All I have a unibody, 13", Alu macbook with 2 gb of ram. I upgraded to Snow leopard 5 months ago. I completely wiped the hard-rive and installed it fresh. Everything worked fine but recently I have noticed some slow down, because of this, I wanted to start fresh (and i have a lot of photography work coming up). I reinstalled as normal and now my mac is really hogging memory. Having a blank microsoft word window open is using 180mb, firefox is using 300. Right now iam using 1.18gb of memory and i only have word,firefox and sportify open. The CPU is fine and is always low. I have looked for answers online, a lot of people say go back to leopard, but i dont see why i should, my mac is reasonable new and the os is up to date. \|If anyone could shed some light that would be much appreciated. Regards Aiden
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aidenzralka #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 17, 2009 Posts: 22	03-05-2010, 01:14 PM hey thanks for the feedback. i think i shall buy some more ram
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