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Q: Do I have enough memory?

I'm upgrading my 2009 MBP to an SSD and I'm considering whether to increase the memory while I have it open. I currently have 4 GB and am thinking of increasing it to 8 GB. How can I tell if I need to install more memory? I don't do heavy computing (email, web surfing, netflix) so I'd rather not buy the memory if I don't really need it. I ran "top" in terminal, but I don't know what I'm looking at (same with using Activity Monitor). Any help making sense of the numbers I'm looking at?

 

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Jul 15, 2015 2:32 PM

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