Wow! just when i thought windows 7 couldn't get any better.!


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Windows 7 really is the best OS Microsoft came out with..

look at how little ram that is being used by Windows 7...Simple Amazing good job MS...

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Windows 7 really is the best OS Microsoft cam out with..

look at how little ram that is being used by Windows 7...Simple Amazing good job MS...

This is actually a bad thing. Too much of the RAM is "free". It's better when the "free" RAM is near zero and that same number is in the "Cached" category.

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Windows 7 really is the best OS Microsoft cam out with..

look at how little ram that is being used by Windows 7...Simple Amazing good job MS...

Interesting, on a macbook (white 13" version) with 2gb of ram installed im getting 996mb of usage from boot up time and I have aero off

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@lalovista

your screenshot says you have a slow Windows7 ;)

You are wasting your RAM by leaving it free. If you don't want to have a fast Windows7 only use 1 GB of RAM and throw the 2nd GB away :argh:

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This is actually a bad thing. Too much of the RAM is "free". It's better when the "free" RAM is near zero and that same number is in the "Cached" category.
@lalovista

your screenshot says you have a slow Windows7 ;)

You are wasting your RAM by leaving it free. If you don't want to have a fast Windows7 only use 1 GB of RAM and throw the 2nd GB away :argh:

am i behind the times already, or is having less and less memory available for apps you actually want to use the trend nowadays?

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Sadly, people just continue to remain ignorant of how Vista and Windows 7 are designed to operate. 355MB after a clean installation with no software installed and nothing having been done with the machine is fine, but if you're still showing 355MB in use after a few days or weeks of usage, you must not use the machine much because Superfetch doesn't seem to be using much. Could be one of those average Joe "browser only email type" people that don't do much of anything but open IE and check email, basic surfing, etc.

When you really load up such a machine with apps and you consistently use them, then you'll see far more RAM in usage - note I said in usage which is a very good thing and means things are working perfectly.

Whenever I see such "low memory" postings I just laugh... because it instantly confirms that people are ignorant and simply can't figure stuff out, nor do they bother to put forth any effort to learn.

The maxim in Vista and Windows 7 is: unused RAM is wasted RAM and it's 100% accurate.

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Win7 is quite a bit smarter about using RAM. Pre-populating RAM via SuperFetch and the disk cache is great (my Win7 TouchSmart has 2.5GB "cached" right now). But I see this is a laptop, and if it has a fast SSD then the disk caching will be less aggressive and SuperFetch may be deactivated. The SuperFetch / caching algorithms have been tweaked quite a bit too, and if you've been on battery power (looks like you're plugged in and charging in the screenshot) it may have been backing off to avoid doing I/O which costs battery life.

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am i behind the times already, or is having less and less memory available for apps you actually want to use the trend nowadays?

EDIT: My original reply was answered by the time I posted it.

When did I get to be old & slow? :sleep:

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nor do they bother to put forth any effort to learn.

How much effort should you REALLY put towards learning the proper way OSs work? Who really NEEDS to know that more RAM used is better...?

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How much effort should you REALLY put towards learning the proper way OSs work? Who really NEEDS to know that more RAM used is better...?

Well, for a start, the people who are claiming that low RAM usage is good in all cases, because they're wrong and should be corrected.

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I'm kinda disappointed they tuned it down from where Vista was it seems. Another tradeoff for crappy systems I guess (and those fraking netbooks).

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I agree, Windows 7 is a great OS, however my system is my main gaming computer, and it's not a high spec machine either, I'm adding about 4GB to it and a better graphics card that takes advantage of DX 10 so I'll be going up to Win 7 as soon as that happens. :)

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As in Vista, the more RAM cached the better.

People still are thinking XP when things in the OS have changed.

This screenshot shows the RAM usage in my test laptop with RC Build 7100. Only WLM, Firefox and Windows Explorer are running.

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To the person who said that turning Aero off would save more RAM, that's true for WDDM 1.0 based cards/drivers, but 1.1 fixes that problem.

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This is actually a bad thing. Too much of the RAM is "free". It's better when the "free" RAM is near zero and that same number is in the "Cached" category.

Like this? :D

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Some people still think that the CORE of Windows 7 uses that amount of memory. They see a system with 4GB of RAM using about 2GB when idle and think that a PC with 1GB of RAM would not be able to run Windows 7 or Vista.

Having a lot of free ram is like hiring alot of workers only for 10% of them actually work, while the rest are watching the others work. It is better to have everyone working so the production goes faster. So it is better to have all the ram utilized so the programs work faster.

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Like this? :D

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Yup! :)

SSD + 6-12Gb of RAM is way to go.

6 GB of RAM can be good. 12 GB is plain overkill right now.

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