Lowering Macbook memory use
02/05/07 01:35 Filed in: Apple
If you picked up a 10.4.x macbook with the 512mb
thinking that it would be more than enough then you
probably found your MacOSX running a little slower
than expected. This was the case for me and when I
ran the Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities
> Activity Monitor) I quickly saw that my system
had about 8mb of free memory.
Although the Activity Monitor will show you exactly what software is taking up your precious memory, here are the two things that I did to help.
1) disable all of my widgets
2) used the Font Book to deactivate all Asian fonts
That helped me free up about 100mb of memory though I am sure a better solution would be to dish out the $$ and get some more memory.
Although the Activity Monitor will show you exactly what software is taking up your precious memory, here are the two things that I did to help.
1) disable all of my widgets
2) used the Font Book to deactivate all Asian fonts
That helped me free up about 100mb of memory though I am sure a better solution would be to dish out the $$ and get some more memory.