Comments on: iFreeMem Review and Giveaway

By: michael

michael — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:22:27 +0000

GUESS WHAT MAC SUCKSSSSS

By: michael

michael — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:20:27 +0000

i cant believe bandersnatch said shit about firefox its the most hackable browser out there..you just need do something about it!!

By: custom web design

custom web design — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:29:46 +0000

Thanks for the soft!

By: Captain Nemo

Captain Nemo — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:00:45 +0000

I used the trial version of this product. It seemed to free up memory, but what I found was iFreeMem itself using up ~200 MB memory. So I removed it.

By: PrettyNana

PrettyNana — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:48:23 +0000

A usefull software

By: Sprocket999

Sprocket999 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:18:31 +0000

Just a follow-up to my above post — I have now bought this and am happily using this (1.6.2 PPC) 2-4 times a day and am loving the results. Well worth the small price to pay. If you open and close several large RAM hog apps throughout the day, you will find this very useful indeed.

By: Sprocket999

Sprocket999 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:13:29 +0000

I actually plan to buy this, as I too, am a ‘cheapskate’ with only 512 mbs in my G4 PowerBook — and running Photoshop, Illustrator, and all the rest. In the pre-OS X days I was the guy using RamDoubler 8 do all this stuff seemlessly on triple the amount of ‘vapour-memory’. I did that for YEARS with ZERO ill-affects! I love this kind of thing!

By: doug

doug — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:01:23 +0000

I bought the product, but it cost me $12. I use it often. It is a good product.

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By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:10:05 +0000

Alright. The winners have been chosen and will be notified soon.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:06:03 +0000

I would use it after using photo editing programs, what I really should do is buy another gig of ram but I am going to wait on a raise for that one.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 27 May 2007 19:55:46 +0000

My 2002 G3 iBook is stuck at its 640 MB RAM ceiling, and it drives me up the wall. Even with my Dashboard widgets trimmed down to the bare minimum (weather, WiFi, battery, and mail checker) and with almost no startup items, my system thrashes about on its hard disk like crazy; it does this even if all I have open is Mail and Camino. When I need to run a Windows app for school work via VirtualPC, all bets are off… iFreeMem may not be able to let me stuff a 1 GB SO-DIMM into my iBook, but I’m sure it’ll help relieve the strain!

By: rucativava

rucativava — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:37:56 +0000

Well, I got my first Macintosh in late 2003, an iBook G4 12″, and I never got another since! I finished my architecture studies now, and I do a lot of Photoshop and CAD, as well as 3D work. This machine is only expandable to a full 640MB RAM, which I alreday did a long time ago. I don’t want to quit on my lovely white little companion, so a RAM helper would be really in good need! I already tested it and can say IT WORKS! I wANT IT!

By: alej744

alej744 — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:57:04 +0000

My computer is pretty old, and it gets tiring to have to wait so long for the lag on some apps to finish. I spend a lot of time looking at beachballs since I only have 512MB of RAM and it’s starting to get very irritating, but I cannot afford any new RAM.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:35:27 +0000

I do tons of video editing and even my MacBook Pro gets a bit groggy after rendering/exporting large projects. This would save me a lot of restarts

By: Ahmad Zaki

Ahmad Zaki — Sun, 27 May 2007 08:36:02 +0000

It would really help me in my web/graphic design process. Imagine having opened 3 browsers, some other graphic design apps, web dev apps and iTunes at the same time! Not to mention the fancy schmancy memory hogging widgets. So, I’d really be happy to have a slight increase in performance.

By: Toni

Toni — Sun, 27 May 2007 07:27:24 +0000

I tried it and find it very useful.

As a web developer I like to have many applications open at once, but with 1GB RAM there is a limit after which you need to shut down some of them.

ifreemem seem to push that limit a bit further,

By: Dubious

Dubious — Sun, 27 May 2007 07:04:04 +0000

oops i meant 17 nickels

By: Dubious

Dubious — Sun, 27 May 2007 07:02:54 +0000

OK so youve got 85 cents. 25 nickels is a lot of change. So you “optimize” by manipulating yourself into 3 quarters and a dime. WOW you think, arent i clever! But guess what, youv’e still only got 85 cents.
MORE RAM folks! That’s the one TRUE solution. All this sort of stuff brings back memories of the good old “RAM Doublers” of the 90’s!

By: Chuck Cheeze

Chuck Cheeze — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:51:13 +0000

Well, you see, I have an 18 month old and another one on the way- a nagging wife, large house payment and I work about 18 hour days. Let me tell you, the wife can talk to me and tell me something to do over and over and it goes in one ear and out the other- I just don’t even hear her most of the time. Actually I hear her, but I don’t remember that I hear her. My memory is all used up. I’d really like to get a syringe full of iFreeMem and jack it right into my arm so I can just get it straight- did we need bread from the store or to store the bread in the pantry? Please give me a license!

By: Jens Bonk

Jens Bonk — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:47:57 +0000

Sounds like a nice program !
I have to admit that my main interest is running CrossOver and EVE Online better. It works on my MacBook, but it stutters very often. More memory (with the shared memory gfx card) would really help and I don’t want to restart my Mac everytime I want to play.
And no, I don’t think the comments seem manufactured. Esp. not the one with the porno flicks

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:05:22 +0000

It could be useful for allowing me to use iPhoto on my struggling Mac Mini (G4 512MB RAM) without needing to take a 5 minute break while the app opens.

By: uh huh

uh huh — Sun, 27 May 2007 03:20:57 +0000

Seems like a good idea, but what are the potential ramifications of manipulating RAM?

As an aside…is anyone suspicious of the comments on this particular thread? They seem redundant, blatantly contrived or worse -manufatured.

By: josh

josh — Sun, 27 May 2007 02:47:36 +0000

ifreemem would be a very useful app for me.. not only could i render in final cut and use photoshop at the same time with greater speeds, but i could also watch up to 3 or porno movies at the same time whilst my usb massager gives me a back rub

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:10:19 +0000

I have a powerbook 12″ with 640 mb of ram (which used to be fine…4 years ago). I do photoshop work, run 3D rendering programs (formz) and CAD programs like vectorworks/autocad. I basically have to kill every single application expect the one i’m using when I get into these memory intensive progams. Until I can upgrade i’d love to free up so more memory to multitask better.

By: shadownight

shadownight — Sat, 26 May 2007 22:52:13 +0000

When I use Safari for a long time and it takes up nearly half my RAM, this would come in very handy!

By: Chris A.

Chris A. — Sat, 26 May 2007 22:40:09 +0000

I’m a musician and have plenty of audio applications on my system that hog huge amounts of memory and processor juice. Before running an audio app such as Digidesigns Pro Tools, usually I would need to restart my Macbook Pro in order to gain back lost memory space. With iFreeMem, all I would need to do is run the app and that’s it! No more time wasted waiting for my computer to boot up!

By: steve

steve — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:52:54 +0000

I do a lot of web development, meaning I usually have Dreamweaver CS3, Photoshop CS3, and Firefox open at the same time 99% of the time I do work. Sometimes I use Illustrator CS3 too.
Also, I tend to test the pages I make out in windows too, and rather reboot into Vista, I use Parallels. Just using parallels eats up all my ram, so having it and any of the CS3 software open at the same time is a nightmare.

Also, I can’t do work in silence, so I always have iTunes running in the background on party shuffle, or one of my play lists depending on my mood.

By: A. R.

A. R. — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:23:33 +0000

I would use iFreeMem is many different circumstances. First of all, I’m trying to learn Photoshop, and I’m not using CS3 – running CS2 under Rosetta is a huge memory hog! It would also be useful when I’m trying to use Word and Firefox at the same time – that’ enough for my computer to spiral into the endless rainbow spinning wheel of doom.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:46:35 +0000

It would allow me to quit running periodical cron jobs that take MUCH longer than any five seconds to simply gain my RAM back. Leave any application open for longer than half an hour and you are likely to have no “free” RAM left and a lot of “inactive” RAM. I have 1.25GB of RAM for my 12″ PowerBook and it seems wonderful until you play around with Photoshop and Firefox and Dreamweaver all at the same time. This would be a nifty little application and I was wondering why I hadn’t seen something like this sooner!