RAM and virtual memory are two different things. Virtual memory allows you to use a portion of your hard drive as though it were RAM. Your hard drive is up to 100 times slower than RAM, so virtual memory is much slower than RAM. When you up...
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RAM is a describes a type of Memory. Just as truck describes a type of vehicle. In other words, your question could in another topic be phrased as: What is the difference between a Car and a Vehicle, I thought they were the same but I don...
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RAM stands for Random Access Memory. Computer memory chips on the mother board are random access. Disks drives are mostly random access, in that the head can shift to the location of the data to be read. The memory is slightly sequential in...
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Technically speaking, RAM (random access memory) is any medium of storing information electronically so it can be accessed in a random sequence. This means some things we don't normally call RAM are also RAM. Hard drives, floppy discs, CD/D...
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・ Your computer uses RAM memory as instantaneous storage. For example, if you open a program, that process... ・ RAM memory is often confused with hard drive memory. Most likely, this is because they are both measured... ・ Your computer's gr...
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Fair comment hothi but think that will confuse Badidoh even more I doubt very much Badidoh if the memory you have at present is registered or ecc which you will not need unless you have around 3GB of memory in a mission critical system, fas...
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Computers have two kinds of storage. The hard disk drive retains data even when the power is off, and it stores the Mac OS (operating system, what makes it all work), all of your applications, data files, music, pictures, and so forth. Th...
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