How to Find Out How Much RAM Your Mac Has

Series Summary

Computers are as prominent in homes and businesses as televisions and break rooms. Computers can be extremely intimidating and this makes learning how to use them that much harder. Businesses need computers and in turn they require savvy computer users. Computer technology changes faster than people change clothes. Keep up with the times and embrace computer technology as a best friend. In this free video series on computers, let an experienced computer user explain how both the PC and Mac and some of their software programs work. Learn how to find out how much memory a computer has, to delete a file, to add a printer and to choose a spreadsheet program. Also, discover how to choose a laptop or notebook computer, the type of memory computers require and determining Windows XP product codes. Finally, see how to clean computer memory, copy data from one hard drive to another and delete cookies for better computer performance.

Video Transcript

"If you have an older Mac you're probably starting to notice that it's slowing down. And that's probably because you don't have enough Ram to keep up with the new operating system and new applications that are out there. And with Macs that's pretty easy to find out. Hi, I'm Charles Stewart, Jr. And I'm going to show you how to find out how much Ram you've got in your Mac. Again, like I said, it's real easy to find out how much it is, or how much you got running in there. First you will go up to the Apple icon in the top left corner of your screen. Click on that and then right underneath that there's a option about this Mac. And you can click on it and then it brings up this. And it gives you what processors you're running. And right under that it says memory and shows that I'm running two gigs of Ram in my Mac. And what kind of Mac, memory you're, you're running. I'm using DDR SD Ram. Now if you want to know more about it. You can, you know, and find out like how many sticks you've got in there, you can hit more info. And then that brings up system profiler and then you go down to memory. And then in there it shows that I've got four five hundred and twelve megabyte sticks of Ram in my computer and it shows me the speeds that I'm running at. And kind of lets you know that they're OK. So it's cool too because it gives you a little bit of a, a status update on whats going on with your Ram. And so as you can see, it's real easy to find out how much memory and Ram you have in your Mac. And that's it."