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How much RAM is actually in use?

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Can someone help me decipher this screen cap:

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I'm not sure what the Inactive chunk refers to - is that available to me or does an application have it looked away for its' own use or what?

I am extremely shocked if that is telling me that out of 2GB RAM there is only 31MB free!

FYI: I have Thunderbird, Firefox (single Tab) and Adium running - there are a few widgets as well: Address Book, iStat, Weather Bug, iTunes and Google Search. Everything else is standard Mac Stuff that runs at start up.

Oh yeah; what is the wired part referring to as well?
 
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Ah, Thanks very much - Search, Search, Search I will remember this one day! :)
 
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