[Q] Where's the ram?

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Probably a stupid question but why do I have so little ram showing? Right now I have 531 in total according to this:



Shouldn't it be nearer a gig?

No. The OS uses a good amount of it. As it should.

If you want to see more info on the memory, download an app called 'Quick System Info' free from the market.

I love how Asus included a screen capture utility with the Transformer. How do you use it to take a shot?

Originally Posted by wynand32

I love how Asus included a screen capture utility with the Transformer. How do you use it to take a shot?

Settings>Screen>check screenshot box ... hold the task button to capture.

Originally Posted by stuntdouble

Settings>Screen>check screenshot box ... hold the task button to capture.

Awesome, thanks!

I noticed this too.

I downloaded and installed Quick System Info, but that shows total RAM as being 729MB !!!!!!!!!!!!

I spoke to Asus support about this, who didn't really have a clue! The girl there confirmed that their 1GB test model also showed the same RAM under settings (531ish), but didn't have quick system info.

She reckoned that the OS would be using the rest, although I didn't believe this. Surely system info would still report the RAM that the OS has reserved, but just show it as unavailable? Also, 295MB sounds like a lot for the OS to steal. They'd have no chance of installing Honeycomb on phones, that often only have 256 - 512Mb total RAM to start with!

She then tried to blame it on the different calculations that they use to calculate Gigabytes. This is usually down to taking 1mb to be 1000 kb, rather than 1024kb. To lose 295Mb out of 1024 would have to be one seriously optimistic calculation!

Anyway, if anybody can come up with a proper answer to this, I would like to know where the RAM has gone.

Does anybody have a Xoom to compare to? Surely that should show the same.

Don't forget that the GPU will be wanting some of that RAM as well, so we can maybe expect 128mb of ram to the GPU.

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For the technically minded, this post should clear things up!

Regards,

Dave

Cool thanks