On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:46 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > not sure what you mean by "green" — user CPU%? free RAM?
free RAM >> I wouldn't worry too much about memory, really. The MBA13" does just >> fine with Lr4 and 4G RAM. > > because that machine can't be upgraded, you'll never know what it might feel > like with more RAM, though on machines with SSDs the differential between > RAM and disk speeds is smaller, so paging doesn't impact performance as > dramatically ... I don't care ... it's fast enough as to not be a bother. > i have a lot of experience correlating performance with RAM upgrades, and i > join a lot of others in advising that RAM is usually the best > price/performance upgrade you can do Whole system performance is much more important than just RAM size. > that's exactly what's weird about it; they support 16 GB but for some reason > Apple doesn't tell you; that's one reason i use everymac.com to check specs > on Macs Apple tells you what is *supported* according to their testing. The physical capabilities might be greater but they're not actually supported insofar as Apple's testing, service and repair is concerned. Engineering often builds in more stuff than the service and support organization is willing to take on ... -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
