[PLUG-TALK] Laptop Memory Question
Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net
Fri Mar 11 00:48:17 UTC 2011
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Russell Johnson wrote:
>
>> 4GB would be 4096MB or 4,294,967,296 Bytes. The actual number should
>> always be higher, as long as we're talking memory, not hard drives.
>
> Russell,
>
> That's what I thought. I wonder why, then, the system sees only 3G of
> memory. Sigh.
Several possibilities.
It could be video memory in use.
It could be the hardware/software installed only supports the ~3.5gb limit.
It could be something else I'm forgetting at the moment and haven't googled properly.
Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net
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