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Agreed, particularly on my MacBook Air where ~1GB is reserved for the shared video memory. I have to close Firefox or Chrome if I want to do any development wor
by larsberg 15y ago
Agreed, particularly on my MacBook Air where ~1GB is reserved for the shared video memory. I have to close Firefox or Chrome if I want to do any development work (our research compiler is a bit of a memory hog) without having a process get swapped out.
I would offer ridiculous gobs of money to upgrade to even 6GB.
- klausa 15y agoWhere did you get your ~1GB number? It's 384 megabytes on machines with 4GB, probably 256 on 2GB. (If you have 13.3" MBP with 8GB of RAM, it carves out 512 MB for video memory.)
- sunkencity 15y agoMaybe he has the 27" screen attached.
- larsberg 15y agoYup, I connect to an external monitor. And worse, it doesn't seem to give that memory back without rebooting. Sorry --- that was an important detail that I should have included.