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


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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

Are you using Apple Drivers?

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Mine isn't doing too bad, only a gig or so used with a healthy chunk of cached RAM. I imagine as time goes on and SuperFetch learns more, my free RAM figure will get lower - which is exactly what I want to see.

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Out of interest, how? Video editing?

Even then you're unlikely to find many video editing tools that can address enough memory to make 12GB worth while. The only software that really leverages that much at this point is server stuff. And even then only when under really heavy workloads.

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Not for me. I can use 8Gb-10Gb of RAM easily

There's a big difference between using something easily, and using it efficiently.

I can also open multiple copies of photoshop and open multiple terapixel images, while render 4 animations in max with super detailed models and textures and use that amount of ram... doesn't mean it's doing anything fast than it would with half the ram.

But then, your posts are getting to ridiculous for anyone on this forum to take you seriously anymore. If you want to earn some respect on this forum and be taken seriously, you need to start learning some actual computer facts, and not high on a joint facts and stop acting like the local clown. net anonymity only brings you so far.

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Do any of you run Visual Studio? It has the amazing ability to use any and all resources thrown at it :)

Using ~1.2GB Ram right now, its not even the biggest project I work on.

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so i guess i really am slightly behind the times by now...

but i still dont agree that 1gb of total ram is better than 2gb.... i mean, how can you justify something like

@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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Wow! Windows 7 is probably the best Microsoft OS after XP, even though it's still in beta.

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.

I don't get why it's better when the free RAM is lower, doesn't that mean the computer goes slower?

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Wow! Windows 7 is probably the best Microsoft OS after XP, even though it's still in beta.

I don't get why it's better when the free RAM is lower, doesn't that mean the computer goes slower?

On task manager:

Memory graph: RAM in active use.

Physical Memory data...

Total: total amount of RAM.

Cached: superfetched/cached RAM. This is to speed up loading programs. It is essentially unused, and will be given up immediately when needed.

Free: completely unused RAM, doing nothing useful.

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I'm using 1.4 gigs right now, have a few hefty programs running though

I think people are still stuck in the old days where how much free ram you had actually mattered. I remember using programs to purge ram as much as possible. The good old days :p

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so i guess i really am slightly behind the times by now...

but i still dont agree that 1gb of total ram is better than 2gb.... i mean, how can you justify something like

I'm pretty sure he was being facetious.

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This debate over lower or higher usage being better is utter nonsense. All that matters is how efficiently it is managed and Windows 7 considerably improves things. The optimisations all around make a huge difference. Even Alt-Tabbing out of a game is now incredibly fast and responsive, meaning everytime I hear Outlook ping I can switch out and check my mail without worrying about performance grinding to a halt and it taking forever. Just about every aspect of the operating system is noticeably more responsive than Vista (which I thought was a decent OS). However, I should point out that while Win7 is only using 2GB of RAM here the other 4GB I have is cached with a tiny amount left for free, so it is taking full advantage of my memory. It's bizarre that people are suggesting that Win7 may be worse than Vista because in some situations it uses or caches less memory.

Performance is better. Debate over.

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