There simply is no reason why adding more memory to a computer is ever a bad thing. Period.
Nada. End of story.
By stating that it is never a ???bad idea??? or ???bad thing,??? I mean that installing as much memory
as the Mac can hold simply won??™t hurt it but there may be a point at which adding more
memory doesn??™t help much either. For instance, if you use your Mac only for ???the basics??? (e-mail,
Internet browsing, word processing), then anything more than 2GB is probably overkill, and you
won??™t see much of a speed difference, if any. However, if you run memory-intensive applications
such as Adobe Photoshop on a regular basis, the more memory you install the better.
Can you have too little memory (aka random access memory, or RAM)? Absolutely! Try
running Mac OS X with only 128MB of RAM and you??™ll see just what I mean. S-l-o-w doesn??™t
begin to describe it.
Discover What Adding Memory Does for Your Mac
Your Mac needs memory to run programs such as the operating system and the applications
you use. The two types of memory used for running programs are the installed RAM modules
and a portion of your hard drive that is set aside to act as a backup for your RAM, called virtual
memory.
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