Saturday, December 10, 2016

windows 7 - 4 GB of RAM installed but only 2.97 GB usable. What gives?





I just bought a used MacBook on eBay that came installed with 4 GB of RAM. The first thing I did was installing Windows 7 using Boot Camp. Here's where it gets weird. When I finally booted it up in Windows 7, I checked the Computer properties, and it said that there were 4 GB of RAM, but only 2.97 GB is usable. Why is that? Is there anything I can do about this?

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