- Weatherbug for mac uses lots of ram upgrade#
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My previous machine was a MacBook Pro from 2009, with an SSD upgrade. Furthermore, I tend to keep my laptops a very long time, and as mentioned, it seems that RAM requirements have been doubling every 4-5 years roughly (just as a guess). for nowīut with 16 GB I have very little need for the (admittedly relatively small) overhead of RAM compression. And truthfully, I could use it just fine too.
So yeah, with these two factors in play and with light usage, 8 GB is probably enough. The other thing is even if the computer does have to hit the swap file, on a 2017 MacBook the IO is fast enough so it wouldn't be the end of the world. Yes, I suspect the OS is compressing RAM much more heavily when presented with an upper limit of 8 GB. I'm sill debating on whether or not it's a waste of $200. I would have purchased the base model right there at the Apple store from that honest salesperson, but had to come home to think about the RAM upgrade, which must be ordered online.
Weatherbug for mac uses lots of ram Pc#
Still, the color looked way too much like a PC laptop for my liking. Only problem is that under their florescent lights, there was some glare on the keyboard, whereas the space gray was softer. The space gray looks too PC-like, like the Dell XPS I dread using in the office (needed for our VPN management system).
Weatherbug for mac uses lots of ram upgrade#
That said, it certainly can't hurt to upgrade to 16GB to play it safe for the future, though, I think 8GB would be enough for at least a few years.Īs for the color, I came in favoring space gray but will probably get the silver. It's constantly using close to half (8GB) much like yours, with far less apps running than the Macbook I tested.Īfterwards, I went to the Apple rep who insisted that the m3/8 GB base model would suffice and thanked her for her honesty.I told her about my test. Same with my late 2015 3.3 GHZ iMac with 16GB of RAM. In your case, you have 16GB so it utilizes as much as it can. I believe that Apple manages RAM depending on how much is built into the device. For real life situations, the memory usage was 4GB and less. I periodically looked at the RAM usage in the Activity Monitor and the highest memory usage was 5.71GB, and this with all of the above apps running, something I wouldn't do in real life. I also had iMessage, Maps, got directions via Maps and a bunch of other apps going. ESPN, CNN (with video) Fox Sports (with video) as well as running two separate youtube tabs, running clips in both. I opened up every application, including iMovie (and played sample clips), Pages, Numbers, Safari (had at least 10 tabs open with memory intensive websites i.e. I opened up the activity monitor and the fun began: So, I decided to put their display model though its paces. One out of 3 reps said that the jump from m3 to i5 would be significant the other 2 said for my purposes I wouldn't notice a difference at all, even at 8GB RAM. Still, I wanted the best bang for the buck, so I spoke with a few Apple reps and played around with their base display macbook (m3, 8GB RAM). This wouldn't be my main work computer, rather one I can travel with as well as do some work (power point, word, excel) as well as emial, browsing, watch movies and occasional youtube video, etc.
Today I was at the Apple Store trying to figure out what color I want (silver vs space gray) as well as the configuration - would the base be ok or should I upgrade the processor and/or RAM. Under my explanation, I am using 6.5 GB, but with 3.91 GB recoverable. Under your explanation, I am effectively using -1.32 GB. Memory used is 2.59 GB and cached files 3.91 GB. That would make more sense, but correct me if I'm wrong.īTW, I just closed everything down on the MacBook and now just have Activity Monitor running, after a relatively recent reboot. If this is correct, then my screengrab of the MacBook above would be 9.03 GB used and 6.81 GB cached, for a total of 15.84 GB (out of the 16 GB installed). What would make sense here is that the iMac is actually using 5.54 GB and has an additional 5.61 GB cached memory, for a total of 11.15 GB used (out of the 12 installed). (Total physical memory 12 GB.) By your explanation above, I am using 5.61 of memory cache, and effectively using -0.07 GB of memory for everything else. Why do I say that?īecause currently on my iMac I have 5.54 GB used and 5.61 GB cached, and no swap file. Click to expand.I'm not sure your description is accurate.
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