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I feel Apple RAM-starves, am I wrong?
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<blockquote data-quote="sfam198" data-source="post: 1309535" data-attributes="member: 204618"><p>OS X is much better at managing the available RAM than Windows. My Windows 7 machine with 2GB RAM is slow from the time you boot it up...open up a few applications that really do anything and it crawls.</p><p></p><p>Now my iMac on the other hand has a bit more RAM (4 GB) but the OS can manage that RAM so much better. Last night I was running the Mac with 4-5 apps open and working, a Windows 7 VM with 1 GB of RAM dedicated to it, and an Ubuntu VM with 1 GB of RAM dedicated to that. I was down to less that 100 MB of available RAM, and the iMac was still sailing along smooth as glass. It wasn't until I started doing a few more things and got the system down to about 15 MB available RAM that things started getting hairy.</p><p></p><p>Try doing that on a Windows OS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sfam198, post: 1309535, member: 204618"] OS X is much better at managing the available RAM than Windows. My Windows 7 machine with 2GB RAM is slow from the time you boot it up...open up a few applications that really do anything and it crawls. Now my iMac on the other hand has a bit more RAM (4 GB) but the OS can manage that RAM so much better. Last night I was running the Mac with 4-5 apps open and working, a Windows 7 VM with 1 GB of RAM dedicated to it, and an Ubuntu VM with 1 GB of RAM dedicated to that. I was down to less that 100 MB of available RAM, and the iMac was still sailing along smooth as glass. It wasn't until I started doing a few more things and got the system down to about 15 MB available RAM that things started getting hairy. Try doing that on a Windows OS. [/QUOTE]
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