Yosemite RAM

Meister said:

1. you are using chrome
2. Your memory pressure is low

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ABC5S said:

You are missing the point. Apple posted that Mavericks and Yosemite uses ram differently now in Activity Monitor, and if Your Pressure Point is in the Green, you are doing just fine. No need and never need 16 GB of ram.

Read this dog gone it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5890?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Just to satisfy my curiosity I fired up all my high usage apps. Everything running at one time memory usage was 37% in the green.

I am totally surprised and amazed that I always had 500 MB of ram left with10 high usage apps running.

My apologies but I still think 8GB is a must.

Crosscreek said:

Just to satisfy my curiosity I fired up all my high usage apps. Everything running at one time memory usage was 37% in the green.

I am totally surprised and amazed that I always had 500 MB of ram left with10 high usage apps running.

My apologies but I still think 8GB is a must.

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Yup... 8 GB is about right for some, but not 16 GB and that will cost you if one just does the basic computer stuff and nothing demanding.

Meister said:

Google apps are not optimized for

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That's a prejudice.

chrome://gpu

tells you, that Chrome uses hardware acceleration on the OS X platform, wherever possible. And AFAIK the Chrome developers use also PGO.

Mr. Retrofire said:

That's a prejudice.

chrome://gpu

tells you, that Chrome uses hardware acceleration on the OS X platform, wherever possible. And AFAIK the Chrome developers use also PGO.

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I have used google chrome and it caused severe problems!
Others experienced the same. There are numerous accounts on this forum that google apps block memory, cause cpu heat and fans spinning like crazy.

I've experienced this first hand and there is no reason I see for using google products.

yosemitie said:

I have used google chrome and it caused severe problems!
Others experienced the same. There are numerous accounts on this forum that google apps block memory, cause cpu heat and fans spinning like crazy.

I've experienced this first hand and there is no reason I see for using google products.

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Google Canary Beta seems better than Chrome and now 64bit. Still has some lag in it. Safari in Yosemite seems much faster and smother. Chrome and Canary have a good translator which what I use it most for. HTML5 seems to work better than Safari.

Firefox FTW.

Cape Dave said:

Best to upgrade to 16GB. 4GB these days barely works well for anything. Shame on Apple for selling one with less than 8GB in this day and age.

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No, 16GB is overkill

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I use Yosemite with 4GB and it is fine. Sometimes it swaps but no big deal. I also run Virtual Machines fine.

The minimum for Mavericks and Yosemite is 2 GB. I tried 2GB before and it was pretty laggy. The graph was constantly yellow. 4 GB is fine.

Look in Activity Monitor to determine if you need more RAM. Load the apps you usually use, and look at the memory Pressure graph. If it is constantly green, it's good, and you don't need more RAM. If it is constantly yellow, you may want to put in more RAM. If it is constantly red, you should really put in more RAM.