I bought the new 2011 higher end 15" model about a month ago but only with 4gb of ram. Is there any reason to upgrade to 8gb of Ram? How much of a difference will it make? I pulled up my activity monitor and the most free space I could really get down to was around 700mb. The page ins: 1.19GB, page outs 756 KB and swap used was 11.4MB. This was with alot of programs open which probably isnt realistic. Realistically there is about 1 gb free with about 1.2gb inactive when I have email,chrome,skype,ical, itunes and word opened which is probably around normal usage. Will 8gb improve these stats significantly enough for me to notice during my daily use? Also I was wondering if I choose to start gaming how much of an effect will 8gb have? Will it be noticeable? I dont have any games currently installed which makes it hard to gauge but Im thinking about playing Diablo 3 if it ever gets released...supposed to be the end of this year?
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. I was looking online and couldn't find anything exactly so I figured joining the macforums would be a good idea.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. I was looking online and couldn't find anything exactly so I figured joining the macforums would be a good idea.