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Originally Posted by namtaru
Yes, it fills up.
Having just now had Google Maps, Live Search, Opera, YouTube, Activesync, Contacts, Teeter, and Slide2Unlock open all at the same time i was using about 85% of my memory
No slow down in TF3d whatsoever, and minimal, if any, lag between switching applications.
So back to my point, there may not be a lot of memory, but if you can't tell the different in speed when its near full then who cares
get over it
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Yikes, had to comment on this one. You must not understand any windows os. Windows (not just programs) eat memory like no other. The operating system itself caches into memory. The more memory you have, the less paging is needed and thus more speed. Its not just a simple as saying how many programs you have open. Windows is notorious for poor memory management, memory leaks etc. Also depends on well written apps. When an app closes, it is supposed to reallocate that memory back to the os and other apps, but a poor written app may not give all that memory back. The closer you get to filling available ram, the more the OS is trying to keep it free by constantly swapping with the page pool, thus slowing things down. Also, you will notice people adjusting their page pools, taking extra available ram for this. This dedicates more memory for a page hungry os, thus improving performance and allowing the remaining memory to be used more effeciently. I could go on but the fact of the matter is, more RAM, better performance..ESPECIALLY on memory hogging OS's like Windows.