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How much memory do you have?

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MrFusion

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How much memory does your Mac have?

My iMac (2 GHz core 2 duo) has 4 GB and I regularly see beachballs.
I am running mail, safari, ical, quicktime, Xcode, address book, textedit terminal and mac journal. That is it. I am even closing stuff as much as possible and still it's beachballing and rattling about the hard drive. :mad:

So how much memory does Lion need? If you are a developer, how much memory makes lion and Xcode comfortable to work with?
 
MrFusion said:
How much memory does your Mac have?

My iMac (2 GHz core 2 duo) has 4 GB and I regularly see beachballs.
I am running mail, safari, ical, quicktime, Xcode, address book, textedit terminal and mac journal. That is it. I am even closing stuff as much as possible and still it's beachballing and rattling about the hard drive. :mad:

So how much memory does Lion need? If you are a developer, how much memory makes lion and Xcode comfortable to work with?
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I have 2GB of RAM on my iMac 2.4 GHz C2D 20" and I rarely see beach balls with Mail, Safari, Preview and a number of documents open in Pages. On my MBP 2011 with 8GB of RAM I have seen a few, but that's because of the HDD in this thing.

By the way, secondary question, does your iMac use an ATi graphics card?
 
Just upgraded my MBP to 8GB today with RAM from OWC.

HDD is 500GB 7200
 
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I've had 4GB ram since Leopard, I've been getting regular beach balls since Snow Leopard, hasn't changed in Lion. I go to click on something like in a spot just to type text and there starts the beach ball and I hardly have anything open at times it does it, I even reinstalled snow leopard hoping to resolve it which it didn't. I thought going to Lion may have helped but not really.
 
ninjaslim said:
I have 2GB of RAM on my iMac 2.4 GHz C2D 20" and I rarely see beach balls with Mail, Safari, Preview and a number of documents open in Pages. On my MBP 2011 with 8GB of RAM I have seen a few, but that's because of the HDD in this thing.

By the way, secondary question, does your iMac use an ATi graphics card?
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Yes, it has an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB graphics card. Why? Is that important? I don't really play games.

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ninjaslim said:
What speed are your hard drives?
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System information says 500 GB SATA disk. I think it's an 7200 RPM. It came with the computer (BTO), I didn't replace it.
 
Considering how much an iMac costs, to stop short and skimp on the memory seems silly, especially on an iMac when third party memory is reasonably priced and its simple to install.

For $200 I got 16 GB.

Beach balls? What beach balls? :)
 
I went from 4GB to 8GB in my MBP because of Lion. More specifically, that Safari's memory leakage problem was slowing down my laptop. One day I had Safari and a couple of other programs running and ALL 4GB was being used. That was the day I decided I needed to go to 8GB.
 
I have 8 gigs on my MBP and I don't get any beach balls with Lion. I do however get occasional hangs with mail which a quick force quit fixes it. I only have 2 gigs of RAM on my mac mini '11 model and no issues there, but it is only used as an HTPC
 
I'm using 3.77GB of my 4GB ram right this moment and I have Safari with 10 tabs open and Outlook '11 open.
 
4GB on a mid-2009 MacBook Pro. Still runs as fast as the day I got it.
 
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2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB
Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 200 GB ... 7200 RPM

On a 15inch Early 2008 MacBook Pro

Lion works flawless ... with the occasional stuck in sleep issue.
 
I run 8gb in three computers - seems about right for an i7. But didn't like Lion so went back to Snow Leopard - 8gb works great with SL for everything I am running.

Also have a older Macbookpro with just 2gb, but stuck a SSD in it and it still runs with the big dogs.
 
I have 8GB on my 15" 2011 MBP. Will jump onto 12GB once the price goes down to a reasonable level.
 
lol while i was reading these i got these little combo: major beach ball, temp rises to 80+ celcius , fans at 5k+ rpm PLUS after some minutes whole system frozen so i had to shut it holding the power button :D

MBP 13' 2011 / and Lion
 
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8GB on 2011 mini server. Never seen one beachball yet or maxxed out memory or high temps. But I don't like Lion until they fix the basic bugs that never should have passed to GM release; unfortunately it came with the machine.:rolleyes:

256 ssd, btw.
 
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4GB wish I had gotten more ... After a few programs the green part of the pie in Activity Monitor vanishes. :(

That said, I don't think the beachballs have anything to do with memory, I get beachballs even when the Activity Monitor shows I still have free memory.
Probably just Lion sucking. ಠ_ಠ
 
Macbook Pro 2010 with 4 GB upgrading to 8 GB next week for Vmware .

iMac 2007 with 4 GB.
 
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