Mac mini and Photoshop

I recently bought an Intel Core Solo mini (used, but only two months old) as a way to switch from PC to Mac. I'm an illustrator and regularly work on midsize Photoshop projects (20-40 MB). I had done some research and thought that a mini would be sufficient, and in general it is. If most people buy too much computing power, I think I got just enough. So far I love the machine.
Anyway, Photoshop is a little chuggy when I run it, especially when I use my Wacom tablet. I have 512MB of RAM - would I see much of a boost in speed if I upgraded to 1GB of RAM, or would I need more? Or is it even possible on a mini?

The benefit of additional memory is somewhat dependant on what you run. To see if you can use additional memory, check the activity monitor.
On your hard drive, in applications/utilities, bring up your activity monitor and look at the system memory tab. Now look at page ins/outs, which will tell you if you'll benefit from adding more memory, based on the applications you currently run. If page outs are 10% or greater of page ins, you can use more memory. So, for example, if page ins are 8000 and page outs are 1500, you would benefit from additional memory. Page outs are when the system has to move some contents of memory to the hard drive to make room for something else. The relative size of the numbers doesn't matter, as they reset when you reboot, just the relationship between the two.
Adobe Photoshop isn't available as a universal application yet, so when you run it on the Intel mini, it runs under Rosetta, which will slow down it's performance. Adobe said that CS3 would be available in a universal version in Spring 2007.
Your system can support up to 2gb of memory.

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