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To add more ram or not?
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I have a 2.66 dual core MacPro with 2 (4 X 512 mb) gigs of ram. Would it be beneficial to add two more gigs (4 X 512mb) for a total of 4 gigs ram? I mainly use Adobe CS2, Final Cut and Microsoft Office.
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It depends. Open up Activity Monitor, and look at how much paging to disc you are getting in normal use. Essentially, if you are swapping to disc a lot, you could use more ram, if not, more will be a marginal benefit.
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Well, activity shows ~30.0 mb free out of 2 gigs ram. Page in/out is 5476569/396816. Page in/out is out of whack isn't it? 
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Free RAM has almost no meaning, as mduell always puts it: free RAM is wasted RAM. The figure you want to look at is the ratio between page ins and page outs. Page ins are good, they are not critical. Page outs are (ideally you would have 0 page outs). It seems that your system could use more RAM.
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yep rambamthankyama'am..............
get page-outs to Ø and system will scream ! !
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Yes by those numbers - I would seriously recommend RAM.
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All the Adobe CS2 apps are serious RAM hogs. Photoshop, especially, really gets a major bump in performance on systems with 3-4 GB of RAM. Once you get the RAM in your system, in the Photoshop prefs, set it for Photoshop to use ~75% of available RAM.
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Thank you so much for the recommendations! 
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