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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Is an external screen a cpu/ram-hog?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1261749" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>The external screen is purely hardware driven and shouldn't adversely affect your system performance, except in the one case where your graphics card is sharing memory with your main system memory and having an external monitor ends up requiring more memory to power that and now you're taking more of the system memory..</p><p></p><p>However, with 8GB of RAM you wouldn't even feel that pain..</p><p></p><p>How does the system "distort" with the external monitor? What are the symptoms? You can always unplug the external monitor and see what happens..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1261749, member: 110816"] The external screen is purely hardware driven and shouldn't adversely affect your system performance, except in the one case where your graphics card is sharing memory with your main system memory and having an external monitor ends up requiring more memory to power that and now you're taking more of the system memory.. However, with 8GB of RAM you wouldn't even feel that pain.. How does the system "distort" with the external monitor? What are the symptoms? You can always unplug the external monitor and see what happens.. [/QUOTE]
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