8Gb of RAM not appearing but appearing weird :S

bender o

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Mar 13, 2011

• #1

Hi, I upgraded my mid 2010 MBP to 8Gb of from OWC, on the about mac info it shows the 8Gb but on the activity monitor I only see 7,75Gb but the free+used adds up to 8Gb, what can be happening?

Here're my screenshots.

Thanks in advance 🙂

 

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daneoni

macrumors G5

• Mar 13, 2011

• #2

This is a normal phenomenon for the C2D Unibody laptops. The current theory is that the integrated graphics is taking up a chunk of your memory.

 

DustinT

macrumors 68000

• Mar 13, 2011

• #3

daneoni said:

This is a normal phenomenon for the C2D Unibody laptops. The current theory is that the integrated graphics is taking up a chunk of your memory.

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Yup.

 

bender o

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Mar 13, 2011

• #4

daneoni said:

This is a normal phenomenon for the C2D Unibody laptops. The current theory is that the integrated graphics is taking up a chunk of your memory.

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And can you make it take up more memory for movies 🙂?

 

daneoni

macrumors G5

• Mar 13, 2011

• #5

bender o said:

And can you make it take up more memory for movies 🙂?

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No, the 9400M's takes up 256MB of VRAM...no more, no less. As far as i'm aware only the latest Intel HD 3000 can go beyond its 384MB limit up to 512MB