I'm running the general release windows 10 on an thinkpad x220 with vanilla drivers and all the current updates. The system has 16GB of RAM with only ~4gb usage so there's no memory pressure at all.

Windows 11 has a habit of doing things quietly in the background and then getting blamed for them later. Memory compression is one of those features. It sounds like a gimmick and immediately gets ...

How does Windows 11/10 manage to run using smaller space on local storage in tablets, laptops, etc? Windows uses two distinct factors to ensure that the operating system takes up as little space as ...

A new feature in Apple's upcoming OS X is reminiscent of a past technology for enhancing RAM use in Macs. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

Apple has publicly touted a significant new feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks designed to maximize RAM, storage and CPU use while also boosting power efficiency: Compressed Memory. The new Compressed ...

The demonstration falls under the two companies' work as part of the Open Compute Project's (OCP) Composable Memory Systems (CMS) TCO Sub-Team initiative and utilizes representative workloads to ...