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I deeply regret getting only 16gb ram in my air for exactly this reason.

c0nducktr 5y ago
Can you elaborate? I don't have a MacBook (but have been considering getting one), but I can't imagine that you need more that 16 GB of RAM to run a browser, no matter how memory-hungry Chrome might be. Is this really an issue? Maybe you're trolling? I don't understand how adding more memory is going to fix your performance. It's not like you're spinning up a HDD to swap. What do you regret?
- invalidname 5y ago
  It depends on the amount of tabs you have open. I have 106 tabs open in FF and it takes up RAM. Activity monitor lists it at 3.28gb though. Chrome has separate processes and fewer tabs on my machine. Still summing them up seems to reach 3gb. IntellJ takes 6gb on my machine so it's the biggest individual user of RAM. I think parent post might be exaggerating but I have the 64gb M1 Max.
- Multiplayer 5y ago
  The system really starts to bog down with 15 ~ 20 tabs open for things like jira, roam, email, etc. CPU usage will be very low but when swapping is in effect system slowdown is really noticeable. I don't see the same issue with Safari but of course Safari does not have the extensions I rely on. I love the Air but excited for my 64gb macbook pro arriving in a month.
Cyberdog 5y ago
I got an 8GB Mac mini. I was broke at the time but needed a replacement in a hurry, and even though my two previous machines had 16GB, 8GB should be fine for web dev work, right? Yeah, I regret it. I like to have YouTube videos on in the background, and usually it's fine, but for some reason live streams in particular just gobble up RAM until there's sometimes skipping audio and noticeable waits when switching apps. Interestingly hiding the chat seems to help; I wonder if the YouTube "app" isn't flushing those DOM nodes corresponding to chat messages off the page after a certain amount of time or something. When worse comes to worse, Streamlink comes to the rescue: https://streamlink.github.io https://streamlink.github.io Oh well. Making do for now. And as others have said, the performance (when not RAM-constrained) and noise (or lack thereof) have been blissful.

Can you elaborate? I don't have a MacBook (but have been considering getting one), but I can't imagine that you need more that 16 GB of RAM to run a browser, no matter how memory-hungry Chrome might be. Is this really an issue? Maybe you're trolling? I don't understand how adding more memory is going to fix your performance. It's not like you're spinning up a HDD to swap. What do you regret?

invalidname 5y ago
It depends on the amount of tabs you have open. I have 106 tabs open in FF and it takes up RAM. Activity monitor lists it at 3.28gb though. Chrome has separate processes and fewer tabs on my machine. Still summing them up seems to reach 3gb. IntellJ takes 6gb on my machine so it's the biggest individual user of RAM. I think parent post might be exaggerating but I have the 64gb M1 Max.
Multiplayer 5y ago
The system really starts to bog down with 15 ~ 20 tabs open for things like jira, roam, email, etc. CPU usage will be very low but when swapping is in effect system slowdown is really noticeable. I don't see the same issue with Safari but of course Safari does not have the extensions I rely on. I love the Air but excited for my 64gb macbook pro arriving in a month.

Cyberdog 5y ago

I got an 8GB Mac mini. I was broke at the time but needed a replacement in a hurry, and even though my two previous machines had 16GB, 8GB should be fine for web dev work, right? Yeah, I regret it. I like to have YouTube videos on in the background, and usually it's fine, but for some reason live streams in particular just gobble up RAM until there's sometimes skipping audio and noticeable waits when switching apps. Interestingly hiding the chat seems to help; I wonder if the YouTube "app" isn't flushing those DOM nodes corresponding to chat messages off the page after a certain amount of time or something. When worse comes to worse, Streamlink comes to the rescue: https://streamlink.github.io https://streamlink.github.io Oh well. Making do for now. And as others have said, the performance (when not RAM-constrained) and noise (or lack thereof) have been blissful.