Dec 9, 2009, 09:13 PM
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imac 21.5" only showing 3.75 GB in activity monitor?
I have a base 21.5" iMac. It says it has 4GB RAM under "About This Mac". But when you run Activity Monitor it only shows 3.75 GB total. This doesn't happen on my Mac Pro or MBP. Anyone else notice this inconsistency?
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Dec 9, 2009, 09:17 PM
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You have 4Gb installed, however 256Mb of that is being used by the video card.
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Dec 9, 2009, 09:25 PM
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Dec 9, 2009, 09:28 PM
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Dec 9, 2009, 09:34 PM
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However looking at the Apple site under specs for the 21.5", it does say.. "NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory" Bummer 
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Dec 9, 2009, 09:53 PM
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Dec 9, 2009, 10:02 PM
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Dec 9, 2009, 10:02 PM
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its a bit deceptive if you ask me. 4GB RAM, should be full 4GB accessible and usable RAM. Otherwise the machine really should be advertised as "comes with 3.75GB RAM"
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Dec 9, 2009, 10:24 PM
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I have confirmed the following:
My imac with OWN graphics card, shows my full amount of memory in activity monitor. My Mac Mini with NVIDIA 9400 shows in Actvity monitor my memory except .25 GB, which is obviously to graphics. So yes, that is why activity monitor shows .25 less than you actually have. There are no worries then, it's just functioning as it should.
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