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MBP1991

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Oct 31, 2024
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Hey guys, planning to buy a MacBook Pro M4 PRO 16 14 CPU and 20 GPU, but not sure how much unified memory I need?

I am day trader, have Telegram, Discord and Spotify open, have like 7 tabs in Safari and 10 tabs in Chrome. 5 of them are exchanges. One tab is the TradingView website.

Thank you in advance.
 

jabbr

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would you consider the base M4 with 32GB upgrade? Sounds like memory matters more for you than all out multi-core CPU performance. You'd also get better battery life.
 

MBP1991

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Oct 31, 2024
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would you consider the base M4 with 32GB upgrade? Sounds like memory matters more for you than all out multi-core CPU performance. You'd also get better battery life.
no base M4 on 16 inch and I need 16 inch for sure this time haha
 
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Mr.Fox

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Hey guys, planning to buy a MacBook Pro M4 PRO 16 14 CPU and 20 GPU, but not sure how much unified memory I need?

I am day trader, have Telegram, Discord and Spotify open, have like 7 tabs in Safari and 10 tabs in Chrome. 5 of them are exchanges. One tab is the TradingView website.

Thank you in advance.
Buy 48GB and don't sweat it. I have already written many times, buy memory with a reserve for the future, because it cannot be upgraded.
 

zarathu

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You can always close down an app. With the memory leakages in control in Monta Ray I always kept the Activity Monitor open, and still do to monitor leakage with VTDecoder XPService in Sona Ma

But using Topaz or Tone mapping in Affinity Photo, I watch the memory usage graph inch up. For me 48 GB with my photo apps is a no brainer. If I wasn’t using photo apps, then 24 GB would work fine.
 
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