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Hi.
Just ordered an Emac with 256Mb RAM - planning to upgrade to 512Mb
Could someone help me out and tell me how much memory does OS X consume with no applications running - in other words, just after booting, with no apps open, how much RAM is being used?
This will help me to decide if I need to upgrade to 512 or 768Mb.
Thanx.
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eMac 1.25 GHz/40 GB/768 MB/ComboDrive
-Centurion, South Africa-
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Go to 768 regardless. Even if you only technically "need" 512mb now, you will most likely need 768mb at some point in the life of your machine. Also, check /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor .. it'll show all your memory/cpu/etc. usage. Very helpful.
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Originally posted by francois9:
Hi.
Just ordered an Emac with 256Mb RAM - planning to upgrade to 512Mb
Could someone help me out and tell me how much memory does OS X consume with no applications running - in other words, just after booting, with no apps open, how much RAM is being used?
This will help me to decide if I need to upgrade to 512 or 768Mb.
Thanx.
From my experience, OS X consumes about 160MB of RAM with no applications running. Don't listen to the other guys. How much RAM you should spend money on depends solely on you and your computing habits. For basic web surfing and e-mail, 256MB can be enough. If you plan on doing a little more than that, 512MB is a reasonable amount of RAM. However, if you are a power use who will be running many applications at the same time, 768MB would be better. You may even want to consider replacing the 256MB module with another 512MB module for a total of 1GB. I've seen (G5) machines with 2.5GB in them.
In general, you should get as much RAM as you can afford to put in the machine. If you can afford two 512MB modules, go for it.
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Hi.
To be honest I still don't know which size would be best, so I will split the diffrence between 512 and 1024 and go for 768Mb.
If in doubt, take the middle road, I suppose 
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by francois9:
Hi.
To be honest I still don't know which size would be best, so I will split the diffrence between 512 and 1024 and go for 768Mb.
If in doubt, take the middle road, I suppose
You got it.
But remember: there is not ONE best configuration.
It all depends on your computing habits...
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