New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store

Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store by yread on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @10:40AM (#2785733)

I use Windows, but just yesterday I noticed I was using 5.47GB and I didn't even have any VMs opened. Just VS with Silverlight, sql server management, couple of browsers with the silverlight plugin opened.. 6GB of RAM payed of I guess

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Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store by kristofferR on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @12:26PM (#2786293)

All good OS's try to use all the RAM availible (within certain limits of course). My RAM is almost always at 80% usage and above even with just a couple of lightweight applications running.

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Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store by yread on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @01:01PM (#2786468)

I was talking about "Commit charge" which is the memory actually used by the processes. You can see it by enabling the Commit size column in task manager. Which doesn't even include all the memory process actually uses. Check this for details on Windows if you're interested http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/1...

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