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Question

Color circle

Feb 17, 2012 7:30AM PST

What is the colored (red,blue,green, yellow,?) circle that goes around when clicking on something? Doesn't do this all the time, just sometimes and usually when something isn't right. Thanks....

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Clarification Request
Is it this one?
Feb 17, 2012 7:34AM PST
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Thank You
Feb 18, 2012 1:53AM PST

It appears that I need more ram. I thought the salesman knew what my needs were. It appearsthat I have only 384 ram. Thanks for the help.

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Which Mac model do you have?
Feb 18, 2012 11:19PM PST

with that small amount of RAM, you either have an older Mac or you have misread/mistyped the RAM details

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Forgot to mention
Feb 18, 2012 11:20PM PST

At the top left of the screen, under the Apple, you will find "About this Mac"
Click it and the next little window will tell you what your OS version is and how much memory you have installed.

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About this Mac
Feb 19, 2012 6:24AM PST

I have a MacBook Pro, 13" Early 2011
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel core i5
<div>Software Mac OS X Lion Version 10.7.3 (11D50b)
Graphic Intel HD Graphic 3000 384 Ram
I hit the memory button and Wow
4 GB installed 2 slots each accepts 1333 MHz DDR3
All slots in use

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You don't need a "cleaner"
Feb 19, 2012 9:50PM PST

which are not really worth the bandwidth they take up when you download them.

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Not sure where the info is
Feb 20, 2012 1:31AM PST

I did as you asked. I have clicked on all the listed items. The only thing I think it may be is the info in Serial ATA. Let me know if that is so. You have been such a big help. Thank you again.

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that's the one,
Feb 20, 2012 3:57AM PST

and, if you are running OS X 10.7.x (Lion) you could just click on the Storage option and it will show you, graphically, what you need to know

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Free
Feb 21, 2012 6:50AM PST

282 GB out of 319GB. Does that make any sense. thank you again.

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Yep, that's the one,
Feb 21, 2012 7:49AM PST

and that rules out the lack of hard drive space.

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Not Sure
Feb 22, 2012 10:47AM PST

I don't think I have more than one at a time. I close all my windows when I am using an app. There are more than one window open when i do my mail and some research.

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The question was "how many applications"
Feb 22, 2012 8:56PM PST

do you have running at the same time.

That is not the same as How many windows do you have open at the same time"

On a Mac, unlike Windows, closing an applications window by using the Red dot at the top left of the window, does not cause the application to Quit.
It just closes the window, the application is still running and eating up your RAM.

Take a look at the dock, notice that under some of the icons there is a little black triangle or a white mark?
You will always see one under the Finder face, first on the left hand end of the dock, and one under each of the applications that you have running.

Launch Mail and Safari and you'll see those marks appear. Now close the Safari window. Note that the mark is still there. Safari is still running.

Next time the beach ball appears, see how many apps you have running.

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