The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using. Topher, an avid Mac ...

Mac OS X is a slick, powerful operating system, but there's a cost to all that gloss. Most users don't ever bother to check, but many of the apps they use every day are notorious RAM-gobblers, eating ...

106386: Mac OS X 10.0: How to View Memory Usage and Installed RAM is a very useful TIL article on how to determine memory usage of individual applications. the About Mac OS X window no longer supplies ...

I doubt you will notice much, if any degredation of performance. The 2gb RAM limit hurts in both OS's, but the beauty of the SSD's is that your paging to RAM is virtually unnoticeable compared to ...