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Apple Computing Products:
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Why is rebooting bad for the computer? How does it affect performance?
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<blockquote data-quote="Osiris22x" data-source="post: 32416" data-attributes="member: 3542"><p>No, that's incorrect.</p><p></p><p>When you close an application, the RAM is returned to the "inactive" state which is essentially the same as "Free" RAM. Closing all applications does nothing. OS X always gives back memory once apps are done with it, it's just that sometimes it goes into "inactive memory" instead of "free memory" and thus people think they need to use these "memory freeing" programs that actually slow them down, or they feel the need to reboot every five minutes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Osiris22x, post: 32416, member: 3542"] No, that's incorrect. When you close an application, the RAM is returned to the "inactive" state which is essentially the same as "Free" RAM. Closing all applications does nothing. OS X always gives back memory once apps are done with it, it's just that sometimes it goes into "inactive memory" instead of "free memory" and thus people think they need to use these "memory freeing" programs that actually slow them down, or they feel the need to reboot every five minutes. [/QUOTE]
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