Every app has a minimum amount of RAM it needs to function, but what about the maximum? Quite often, maximum amount of RAM needed for a certain app is not expressed in mega/gigabytes, but rather in % of total RAM available.
There’s an oversimplified example that everyone can understand. And we’re not talking about whether you have enough RAM for the next 10 years, but about this very moment. When asked about this, he replied, that “no one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.” And this, in fact, is very true.
“My RAM is never full, so I don’t need more ram”Īs Bill Gates allegedly said (though he denies it, quote still floats around like a rumor), “ 640K is more memory than anyone will ever need”.
Now that we’ve covered the basics (I assume you already knew all this, but just to be sure…), let’s get onto the myths about RAM. It’s kind of like our short-term memory: it temporarily stores some information that your PC/Console/Phone needs right now or thinks will need soon, so it can access that data at an instant, rather than searching for it on your HDD. RAM, or random-access memory, is a kind of computer data storage, but it’s quite different from hard disks or DVD.
