Freshly restarted mbp shows 390mb of active memory, is this normal?

Note this is only active memory not includig wired. It is a 4gb week old brand new model. Just double checking thanks. I guess these new computers take up more RAM than what I am used to. I dont mind as long as its normal because the controls are sooooo smooth.

Thanks, I noticed that when I hadn't restarted for a few days active RAM quickly got up to 2 gigs but Im sure that is expected.

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