A new feature in Apple's upcoming OS X is reminiscent of a past technology for enhancing RAM use in Macs. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

It’s easy to forget where we’ve come from, for better and worse. To help us remember both the good and the bad, and to elicit stories from long-time Mac users, we’re going to look back into our ...

No matter what kind of computer you have, the one upgrade you should be thinking about is more memory. RAM, or random access memory, is like money in the bank: You never seem to have enough. The ...

A software technique that compresses the contents of memory, thereby doubling (more or less) its available capacity. Used in the 1990s when memory was expensive, MagnaRAM was a popular RAM doubler ...

In the mid-1990s, as computers became more powerful, software demanded more memory — but RAM was expensive and intimidating to upgrade. Most users weren’t comfortable opening their computers, let ...