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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 682888" data-attributes="member: 21101">If that is the maximum extent of load you place on your machine, you don't need more RAM.Your machine should never have more than a few MB of 'Free RAM' except when you first start it up, because OS X caches almost everything it can. The key figure to keep an eye on is the Inactive RAM. If this goes very low, then your machine will start paging.Your memory use indicates you have a 1.0gb Swap file, but 384MB of inactive memory, which suggests to me that since boot up, you have done something very memory intensive and then perhaps closed that application.More memory gives you more headroom, but unless you're seeing performance issues when you're running apps, as opposed to opening everything and checking memory usage, then you could save your money. I agree with what Soulwar is saying to an extent, which is that you can always have more memory... It's just not necessarily going to make a difference to your day to day use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 682888, member: 21101"] If that is the maximum extent of load you place on your machine, you don't [B]need[/B] more RAM. Your machine should never have more than a few MB of 'Free RAM' except when you first start it up, because OS X caches almost everything it can. The key figure to keep an eye on is the Inactive RAM. If this goes very low, then your machine will start paging. Your memory use indicates you have a 1.0gb Swap file, but 384MB of inactive memory, which suggests to me that since boot up, you have done something very memory intensive and then perhaps closed that application. More memory gives you more headroom, but unless you're seeing performance issues when you're running apps, as opposed to opening everything and checking memory usage, then you could save your money. I agree with what Soulwar is saying to an extent, which is that you can always have more memory... It's just not necessarily going to make a difference to your day to day use. [/QUOTE]

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