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Oct 1, 2011
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Hello guys

i am going to buy a 8GB ram for my mac pro , but i need any app that will let me see the difference between using 4GB and 8GB ,i am planning to make a tutorial :D
 
Hello guys

i am going to buy a 8GB ram for my mac pro , but i need any app that will let me see the difference between using 4GB and 8GB ,i am planning to make a tutorial :D
To determine if you can benefit from more RAM, launch Activity Monitor and click the System Memory tab at the bottom to check your page outs. Page outs are cumulative since your last restart, so the best way to check is to restart your computer and track page outs under your normal workload (the apps, browser pages and documents you normally would have open). If your page outs are significant (say 1GB or more) under normal use, you may benefit from more RAM. If your page outs are zero or very low during normal use, you probably won't see any performance improvement from adding RAM.

Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
 
Use activity monitor to see the figures.

Or use a large application such as Final Cut, Logic, Photoshop, Google Earth (maybe?) or a game such as COD4 to test real life performance.
 
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