Well the 2 Gb of ram has arrived

In my previous post, I was complaining about how my MacBook seemed so slooow. Well 2GB of Ram has definitely helped. In intel-native applications, the system is much faster than my powerbook. However the MS Office suite is still annoyingly slow. Thankfully, now when I'm running a non-native app, at least it doesn't slow down the rest of the computer.

However, based on my experience - if you're doing a lot of work in Word / Excel / Powerpoint - stick with a PowerBook, at least until the new office suite comes out.

Below is my ram usage when multitasking:


I haven't yet been able to use the full 2GB - the system almost allways has 512MB or more free. This is good, since it means there aren't any "page outs" - the system doesn't have to wait to load memory from the hard drive.

It also means the system would probably improve significantly with just a 1GB upgrade, since my MacBook doens't often make much use of the second GB, even though its available.