IMac 27" Low on Memory!

Couple of months ago I bought a 27" iMac with 4GB DDR3. At times I realized it hangs for a while without running anything special and after installing memory scope, I found that the memory was majorly used. For example with safari playing a youtube video, skype open (not on call just chat) and Mail open and itunes playing only 500MB are free and when it hangs obviously 0mb are free and memory scope indicated "freeing memory" and I have to wait for it...
Also, when I have nothing open but aperture only like 10mb are free. I know aperture is pretty stressing but is this normal? 4GB sound a lot for the amount / type of software I'm running but it surely isn't. I wanna know if it's normal because if it's not the case I wanna take it back to get checked before the warranty expires.

Although Apple claims the minimum requirement for ML is 2 GB most of those posting here running ML or Lion say 4GB is barely enough. Memory is much chraper these days and you can install it yourself. Get a couple of 4GB RAM modules from Crucial or OWC, install them yourself and then run your system and see if in Activity Monitor your PageOuts are excessive. If not then enjoy your faster system if they are still high get another 2 x 4GB and trade out the 2GB modules. 12 GB should be enough but depending on usage 16GB could be better.

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from Fireworks
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PNG file open
at
| a time, but also happens when I have DW and Fireworks open
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time.
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problem on Mac
| installations, but I can't find any tech notes about it and
I'm convinced
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