To anybody that can answer this my iMac has 4gb memory how much faster would it be if i installed 16gb???

to anybody that can answer this my iMac has 4gb memory how much faster would it be if i installed 16gb???

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Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
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The hatter,
This may be the solution for me. I’m OK with assembling the unit you described (I’ve even etched my own boards) but feel very bad about needing to step away from Apple products. When I started computing this was the sort of thing computers were designed to do. Is there any native 64-bit spreadsheet that allows unlimited rows/columns, which will run on an Apple? Excel is only 64-bit on their machines.
Many thanks to both of you for your quick and on point answers!

Paypal $25 to anyone that can answer this question!

Was is the proper script for the main menu's "Play Movie" that will resume after the show has been started?
Beleave me, I just all confused about scripting, some other websites have not been too clear for me.
-Eric

YOU OWE ME 25 BUCKS MISTER, HERE IS YOUR SCRIPT:
Ill break it down for you so you can understand the purpose of each part and why its there.
1 Goto 3 if (GPRM 1 = 0)
2 Goto 5 if (GPRM 1 != 0)
3 mov GPRM 1, 1
4 Jump Track 1 (insert your track name here)
5 mov GPRM 1, 0
6 Resume
There you go, now for the dissection:
1 Goto 3 if (GPRM 1 = 0) This basically says, if the value of GPRM 1 is equal to 0, then jump to line 3 in the code, if the value of GPRM 1 is not equal to 0, go to the next line. Since the value of GPRM 1 will always be 0 when you first play the DVD, it will always jump to line 2 the first time around.
2 GoTo 5 if (GPRM 1 != 0) This is saying if GPRM 1 is not equal to 0, go down to line 5 of the script.
3 mov GPRM 1, 1 This is what is executed after line 1 if in the first line, GPRM is equal to 0, this is now taking GPRM and adding a value of 1 to it.
4 jump track 1 After GPRM has a value of 1 added to it, it is going to jump to your track and start playing at the beginning of the track, just as a normal PLAY MOVIE button would do.
5 mov GPRM 1,0 This is resetting GPRM 1 back to zero for the next time around. This is where the script jumps to after you have returned to the menu, if you remember in the first part, the script reads the value of GPRM 1, since on a return to the menu, GPRM 1 now has a value of 1, meaning that in line 2, GPRM is not equal to 0, and it will jump to line 5 in the code. after executing this and resetting GPRM to 0, it will jump to the following line:
6 Resume. Your track will resume to where ever you left off before coming to the menu. viola, your now neck and neck with the big boys.
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Anyone good at Cookie Managment in Firefox that can answer this problem?

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Im sorry but i don't have the expertise in this area to exactly locate the change any dev did in that particular time. I'm just a normal user. I did as much as i could until this point. Now only any dev could notice it and add it to his/her task to find out the source of the problem.
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