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Chri501

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 29, 2017
9
10
Hi,

What is a good way of testing if you should increase the RAM capacity on your mac?

Just run multiple high demand applications and once and test the speed? Or is there a more professional or technical approach?

Please let me know as soon as you can!

Thank you.
 

DeltaMac

macrumors G5
Jul 30, 2003
13,512
4,425
Delaware
One method is to use your Activity Monitor app, Memory tab.
Use your Mac with your usual apps, doing the tasks that you would normally do.

The Memory Pressure graph is normally in the green. Yellow, or particularly Red can indicate that your installed RAM may be not enough for your use.
 
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