To better understand and meet the needs of clients like
you, we are conducting a brief survey and would appreciate
your input.  The information you provide will be used to improve
the products and level of service we offer to companies such as
yours.

As a thank you for your time, we will send you a free
copy of Digieffects’ “Aged Film” plug-in for After Effects, Final
Cut Pro and other host applications (retail value of $49).

This invitation is only going to a select audience and we are
hoping for as close to 100% participation as possible.

To complete the survey, please use the link below or copy
the entire URL into your Internet browser.

http://www.eqr1.com/sw.pcm?n=T05021

This survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Please note that all responses will remain entirely confidential to
Digieffects.

Thank you for your participation,

Robert Sharp
CEO, Digieffects

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Any communication outside of this survey in the form of emails to Equation
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OS X 10.4 or higher – System Memory Usage

update

Curious to see how much memory your applications are currently using? Wondering if adding new memory will give you a noticeable performance benefit?

To find these answers, go to Utilities > Activity Monitor. Click the System Memory tab to display four different memory states. (I modified the screen shot to make it smaller – yours will look different.)

Wired = memory that is assigned to active RAM and cannot be paged out to disk (usually assigned by your OS).

Active = memory assigned to running programs that is currently busy.

Inactive = memory assigned to a program or process that is not busy at the moment. Essentially this is memory in reserve.

Free = unassigned memory that is available for use.

Use the graph to make a quick system assessment. If it’s predominantly red and yellow, consider adding more memory to avoid taking a performance hit. If it’s mostly blue and green, you’re probably fine.

Isn’t it nice knowing these things?