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Nope. Regular usage at around 17-18 gb ram. Similar workflow peaks at barely 6gb on the macbook pro.
by nojito 6y ago
Nope. Regular usage at around 17-18 gb ram.
Similar workflow peaks at barely 6gb on the macbook pro.
- foldr 6y agoModern OSes and apps make aggressive opportunistic use of available memory for caching and other performance-enhancing purposes. A side effect of this is that however much RAM you put in your machine (within reasonable limits), it always looks as though you're using the majority of it once you're running a few apps. Hence the large number of people who think that they "need" 16GB of RAM when in fact they are just getting a small to medium performance boost from it. You can see a concrete example of this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1_4wek4nI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1_4wek4nI The 16GB Macbook Pro is "using" more memory than the 8GB model to run the exact same tasks.