RAM Consumption

I'm a newbie to the wonderful world of Apple, but to me it seems like my MBP is using an aweful lot of the installed RAM whilst performing little to nothing. I downloaded the iStat nano widget, and it's reading (with the only things running being the browser and 3 widgets in the Dashboard) about 644 MB used total, with 188MB active, 400 inactive, and 105 wired. Also, what does wired mean? Just required RAM being used by the machine? I figured 1GB would be ok for a little while, but it seems to me like that's cutting it kind of close. Once i open up Logic and get a few things running, I'm faced with maxed out RAM. What gives? Anyone else seeing the same?

here is an easy-to-understand (even for me) article that details how to determine if your mac needs a ram upgrade. very simple. very straightforward.
http://www.macworld.com/2006/02/features/speedram/index.php
also, the last chart shows the diminishing returns factor of ram upgrade that i like to harp about, thought i admit rosetta has probably changed this significantly, especially with photoshop.
MBP 1.83   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   not yet shipped, probably not yet built

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