Apple iBook + iPod mini student discount thingybob

You only need worry about the amount of active memory usage

 

I found a nice program for you to customise the OS called TinkerTool, you can get it at http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html

Its quite good, it enables you to disable the dashboard (something which some people want to do to maximise free ram) and add an extra minimise effect called 'Suck' which is sort of a mix between the two originals.

RTT, what do you mean by 'Active Memory' ?

 

iBook photos here.

 

Short version:
11MB of free RAM on a unix system is not the same as 11MB free RAM on a Windows system. Don't worry - you're no where near in desperate need for more RAM... but upgrade anyway

Long version:
Used memory on unix systems includes memory that has been reserved for future usage or freed by closed programs or threads. You may only have 11MB of 'free' memory but that's perfectly fine and doesn't mean you need more - because what really matters is how much memory is in active use. If your active memory is aproaching your total RAM capacity, that's when you absolutely need more RAM.

I have 1GB of RAM in my mac and 'only' have 30MB 'free', but in reality i'm only using 360MB of it

All unix systems work this way

PS: You can view the breakdown of active/inactive/free memory using the Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities.

 

Cheers RTT, Makes sence now!

I'll have a look at that 'Activity Monitor' proggie right now I think.

 

sam0r, thanks very much for the pics of the ibook. I am very tempted

 

Now go and buy one

 

alrite then

 

Very nice, I have mine arriving on Tuesday after taking advantage of the ipod student offer.

Whats with the Windows installer though?

 

I was messing with virtual pc to see how well it ran.

Its too slow to actually do anything productive on it