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My wife has a 32gb Intel MBP from 2018 and regularly uses 12-16gb just browsing the internet, checking email, playing with her photos and watching TV shows. Ju
by genmud 4y ago
My wife has a 32gb Intel MBP from 2018 and regularly uses 12-16gb just browsing the internet, checking email, playing with her photos and watching TV shows.
Just because the newer stuff has fast SSDs and can page/unpage memory quickly doesn't mean it isn't memory constrained. I actually want to go to an apple store and see what the base OS sits at memory wise.
I just did a reboot with nothing started other than my standard startup apps/services (Creative Cloud helper, Dropbox, 1Password, SnagIt, Rectangle) and my m1 is sitting at 8.02 GB memory used, with NO apps running.
- mwint 4y agomacOS heavily caches basically everything; it’s allergic to unused memory. If there’s space it’ll find something to put there in the off chance it’s useful. You really have to go off memory pressure, not the naive used/free numbers.