Yeah, I know it depends on other specs, just wondering what kinds of multitasking & process-intensive stuff others can do with "just" 8 GB?
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I have a bare bones iMac w/ 8GB I bought in an emergency in 2013 and never got around to upgrading it. Frankly I've been very surprised at how capable it has been. I've made a few 10 min videos with Final Cut Pro, edited countless pictures with Aperture, Photoshop, and Lightroom. Yes, it may require a bit of patience at times, but it can handle all of that. Of course that might be due more to the low end video card in this machine than the RAM. Hard to tell when everything is bottom of the barrel, relatively speaking.
RAM usage as pretty much stagnated, unless you are editing 4K video.
A lot of people on Macrumors thought we were going to have 16GB of RAM on base model Airs by now. Many base devices Mac and PC still come with 4GB.
Now users are backlashing against poorly coded software that take unreasonable amounts of RAM, and Microsoft/Apple are focusing on making the Operating systems more efficient.
The OS will use as much RAM as there is avaliable. If you had "only" 8GB of RAM then you wouldn't have gone over.If money is no issue go with 16. I upgraded my 13" MBP to 16, thinking i really didn't need it, but at times I do. So for just a $ more you have 16. I am not a heavy user, but the other day I was running Safari, Windows 10 on Parallels 11 to run Peerblocker, and outlook for email, and I was over 8.
Duh, brilliant. If I only had 8 it would not go over. No Kidding! How can it use more than you have, except page to the HD.The OS will use as much RAM as there is avaliable. If you had "only" 8GB of RAM then you wouldn't have gone over.
OSX will compress the data in ram before attempting to page to the harddrive.Duh, brilliant. If I only had 8 it would not go over. No Kidding! How can it use more than you have, except page to the HD.
I think you are missing the point. The OS will try to use whatever RAM is available. So the fact that you installed 16GB and it now uses say 13GB of that is not proof in any way the 8GB was not enough. The true test is the memory pressure section of Disk Utility. If you have 8GB and memory pressure is in the green, you do not need 16GB for example.Duh, brilliant. If I only had 8 it would not go over. No Kidding! How can it use more than you have, except page to the HD.
Yeah, I know it depends on other specs, just wondering what kinds of multitasking & process-intensive stuff others can do with "just" 8 GB?
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You completely missed the point. I think you're being obtuse on purpose.Duh, brilliant. If I only had 8 it would not go over. No Kidding! How can it use more than you have, except page to the HD.
I did not know that. TYI think you are missing the point. The OS will try to use whatever RAM is available. So the fact that you installed 16GB and it now uses say 13GB of that is not proof in any way the 8GB was not enough. The true test is the memory pressure section of Disk Utility. If you have 8GB and memory pressure is in the green, you do not need 16GB for example.
I think whether your MBP has an SSD or not plays a lot into this too. A system with a 5400rpm HDD paging out to disk is a much different experience than a system with a PCIe SSD.