Monthly Archives: October 2008

OS X Memory Issues

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With Activity Monitor and the Finder open, and, a few background apps (Remote Buddy, Proxi, and PTHPasteboard). I had just closed all other apps: Mail, FireFox, iTunes, PandoraBoy, Adium, iCal, probably a few others.

With 3GB Physical RAM in this system, I was left with 750MB free:
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This, is no good.

Update (12/29/09): I finally googled this, no idea why I waited so long. Anyway, Mac OS X: Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor.

MacBook Pro Riser

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For about $8 I made the equivalent to the Griffin iCurve/Elevator with PVC pipe.

Original idea was from Instructables. I adjusted for size of the MacBook Pro, and used 1/2″ instead of 3/4″ PVC. 3/4″ seemed far too heavy duty for this.

If you want to make one for your 15″ MacBook Pro I recommend using 1/2″ PVC.

You’ll need the following pieces:

  • 2x 11″
  • 4x 5 1/2″
  • 2x 3″
  • 4x Elbow Joints
  • 4x T-Joints

Assembly is pretty simple. I actually did it right in Home Depot in about 10 minutes.

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