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To: freekitty

There are 2 primary types of memory (that the non-engineer, non-programmer, non-chip designer) really cares about.

RAM and the size of your hard drive. Many Macs come with at least 2 GB, and many come with much more. You ONLY need 2 GB; you have 7 GB.

Hard Drive - I don’t know how big a hard drive you bought with your Mac. Many Macs came with a 300 GB drive; is your drive 97% full? If not, then you have more than 7 GB free - and you should be fine.

If you pull up the info panel on your hard drive; you will know the hard drive capacity, how much space you are using, and the all-important ‘Free space available’.

If you have more than 7 GB of free space available - you are golden, good to go.

If you have less than 20 GB of free space, I personally urge you to invest in a second hard drive and move some stuff over. Hard drives never run at peak performance when they are over 80% full. I cannot speak to the performance/capacity ratio on the new SSD (solid-state disks) that are now the latest screaming storage media. I simply don’t have any experience with them, yet.


35 posted on 07/20/2011 1:18:30 PM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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Hodar. This is my big boy. He is the one that is joined at my hip. He loves surfing on the computer. Has a standard poodle girlfriend named Sophie down the street. LOL Photobucket
43 posted on 07/20/2011 3:02:15 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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