Does anyone regret not getting higher specs on their MBPr?

[Hieveryone]

I think the most important questio....is why are you running 5 user accounts at one time? With 1-2 users logged in I don't think you would have this issue. Running time machine, filevault, youtube, pages you should pretty much see no lag. I would try that for a few days and see if you run into the same issues.

So if I just logout of each account when I am done then go to another account I will NOT be using extra RAM is that right?

Because I have no problem logging out.

 

[Meister]

But if I logout of each account each time, then I won't use up RAM?[

Hell yes!

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So if I just logout of each account when I am done then go to another account I will NOT be using extra RAM is that right?

Because I have no problem logging out.

Yes, yes, yes!
Staying logged into five accounts at them same time will eat up your memory in no time.

 

[Steve121178]

I went on ahead an got a 2.6/8/256 MBPr back in late 2013.

It was a custom order as I bumped up the processor to 2.6.

But now that I have literally 5 accounts on my MBPr sometimes all logged in at the same time, multitask on it, literally have time machine on all the time backing up, encryption on, youtube videos running all the time on chrome while connected to an external monitor and surfing firefox, and numbers and calculators all running at the same time,

I wish I had gotten 16GB RAM and maybe the 2.8 GHz processor

So log off the inactive accounts and get some RAM back as that's the bottleneck in your situation.

 

[Hieveryone]

OK sounds great! Thanks guys.

 

[827538]

Op you'll do a better job if you dump chrome and use safari loading the html5 YouTube site.

Agree with this. I came over from Windows (still run Windows via Bootcamp on this) so first thing I did was install Firefox and then also try Chrome while on Mac, didn't take me long to realise Safari is actually a really nice browser that runs really well on OS X. Highly efficient and runs Youtube and Netflix in HTML5 as default so my battery life while watching video is fantastic... and 60fps youtube! Chrome is and always has been a real resource hog, Firefox was a bit mediocre under Mac and Safari is just brilliant.