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| bio | website | architechies.com |
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| location | Irvine, CA | |
| age | 27 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | Dec 7 '12 at 23:12 | |
| stats | profile views | 10 |
I write software, mostly for iOS and the Mac, occasionally with Rails, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
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Nov 21 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 4 |
comment |
What is wired memory? If your Mac uses integrated graphics (as opposed to an expensive, power-hungry discrete graphics chip), all the memory used by the graphics card is wired. This alone is 384 MB on my 13" MacBook Air. Thunderbolt controllers also need lots of wired memory, and I wouldn't be surprised if hard disk buffers do too. A couple hundred megabytes here, a couple hundred there, soon you're talking about real memory. The question is, is your Mac under memory pressure? If it's not, quit obsessing over Activity Monitor and get something done. |
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Jul 30 |
answered | Easy way to get *all* Notes to synchronize via iCloud? |
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Jul 30 |
comment |
Will Mountain Lion make an older computer run faster or slower? My mother made this comment about her Retina MacBook Pro (base model with 16GB RAM). I'm also running it on my 2011 MacBook Air (1.8 GHz i7 with 4GB RAM); it runs very nicely there as well, but I've been using the betas for several months, so I don't have a good feel for how Lion performs anymore. |
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Jul 30 |
answered | Will Mountain Lion make an older computer run faster or slower? |
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Jul 30 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Jul 28 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 2 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
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Nov 21 |
comment |
What are the downsides of getting a foreign keyboard layout on a MacBook Pro? I didn't realize that—most of the UK keyboards I saw were for PCs. Thanks. |
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Nov 21 |
answered | What is wired memory? |
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Nov 21 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Nov 21 |
awarded | Editor |
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Nov 21 |
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What are the downsides of getting a foreign keyboard layout on a MacBook Pro? deleted 4 characters in body |
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Nov 21 |
answered | What are the downsides of getting a foreign keyboard layout on a MacBook Pro? |
