{"id":230,"date":"2006-11-23T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2007-08-30T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T19:22:05","slug":"ram-it-to-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/2006\/11\/23\/ram-it-to-the-max\/","title":{"rendered":"RAM it to the max."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally dropped more RAM into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbook\/macbook.html\">MacBook<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>The original 512MB simply is not enough to run MacOSX in my view. Example, if I was using Safari and had 5 or 6 tabs open, closing a random tab that was not the foregrounded one would cause the spinning &#8220;beach ball of doom&#8221; to appear, often for long enough to make a cup of tea. Another example, I have the Applications folder in my Dock to act like a quick launch &#8211; on my old G3 iBook this worked fine, but on my CoreDuo MacBook I would have to click and hold down the button for 10-20 seconds before the folder popped up and opened.<\/p>\n<p>But now, with the maximum of 2GB of RAM in my MacBook, all is well. I can open Safari AND iTunes without a visit from the beach ball. I can open tabs and flick between them with no lag. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\">Google Reader<\/a> works! Its great. I note that with just RSS Menu and Safari running my MacOSX sits there using 800MB of RAM&#8230; nice \ud83d\ude41 The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crucial.com\/\">Micron<\/a> RAM also seems to run warmer then the old standard Apple stuff, but not worryingly so.<\/p>\n<p>Right, new bigger\/faster hard disk next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally dropped more RAM into my MacBook last night. The original 512MB simply is not enough to run MacOSX in my view. Example, if I was using Safari and had 5 or 6 tabs open, closing a random tab that was not the foregrounded one would cause the spinning &#8220;beach ball of doom&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}