My MBPro has 4 gigs of ram, but I was curious if its possible to use a flaw drive to expand it. I know with windows you can use a flash drive as virtual memory, but is it possible to do on a mac as well?
My MBPro has 4 gigs of ram, but I was curious if its possible to use a flaw drive to expand it. I know with windows you can use a flash drive as virtual memory, but is it possible to do on a mac as well?
On a PC, what it's doing is using the flash drive as a page file which is a faster device than the HDD. It's not actually expanding your RAM.
That being said, Mac OS don't have that technology that I am aware of but with 4GB of RAM, it's not really needed. Additionally, doubling your RAM to 8GB is only around $50 which is not too bad of a price all things considered.
Is it worth expanding to the 8 gigs? I'm not doing any 3D rendering or gaming, I mostly work with the adobe design products for print and the occasional audio file.
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