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How quickly do you buy new electronic gadgets?

11%

I like to be the first one to have anything new.

13%

I like to wait until they work out all the kinks.

30%

I like to wait until the price comes down.

40%

I wait until I really need the new functionality.

I wait till someone gives it to me as a gift.

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memory allocationsearch for term: The process of reserving specific memory locations in RAM for processes, instructions, and data.When a computer system is installed, the installer may allocate memory for items such as disk caches, RAM disks, extended memory, and expanded memory.Operating systems and application programs allocate memory to meet their requirements, but they can use only that memory actually available to them.Memory can be reallocated between resources to optimize performance. The proper memory allocation mix depends on the applications that are run.