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How much memory do you have?

I have 2GB on my early 2008 mbp :(

I haven't upgraded it yet because it was just fine in SL but in Lion, according to Activity monitor, I constantly use 1.99 GB and naturally see a lot of beach balls. I know I should upgrade but I'm trying to save money for something else. Like for college. :)
 
8GB RAM, upgraded specifically because of Lion. I like using Safari even though it does hog lots of memory. Running the 7200rpm Seagate Momentus XT with 4GB SSD. No beach balls at all.
 
4GB. I saw swap usage of 15GB yesterday, unbelievable. The same usage on Snow Leopard never used more than 4GB of swap.
 
I only have 2gb and my system hangs regulary and I get the beach ball. I'm sure this is a combination of my low memory and slow HDD. I'd rather upgrade to an SSD before adding more RAM.
 
Only 2GB in my 2007 MacBook

The only time I see a beachball is if I try to run Lightroom/Photoshop when other apps are running as well, but they disappear once the app is loaded

Safari is the worst on mine for RAM usage, but if I close it down every few hours then its usually fine (this depends on site viewing, apple discussions forum seems to cause mine to use large amounts of RAM, Java related? )
 
8GB in 2011 Macbook Pro. The only time I ever see beach balls is when I run the App store, other than that, everything runs smoothly.
 
4GB on my i7 Air.
16GB on my i7 iMac.

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I have 16GB RAM on my iMac, which Lion seems happy with. No slowdowns or beachballs, except when my Time Machine drive wakes up to do a backup.
 
MacRum2011 said:
it can't be lion i was getting beach balls in snow leopard just as much as i'm getting it with lion, and even when i reinstalled SL it didn't even help.
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Maybe it's some software you keep running? Something that runs in the background, or a plugin, or anything like that? Maybe your hard drive has some kind of problem, or you might actually have not enough RAM.
 
baryon said:
Maybe it's some software you keep running? Something that runs in the background, or a plugin, or anything like that? Maybe your hard drive has some kind of problem, or you might actually have not enough RAM.
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the only reason I think iTunes beachballs is because the iTunes library is on the external and its USB, but my library won't fit on the main drive as it is 320GB the same size as my main drive.

But Word, Excel, Safari, Photoshop, iMovie all beachball, even when I don't do anything. They would be the worse programs.
 
4GB on my i3 iMac. Running Lion with no beachballs. Multiple windows open, some playing flash videos and all is fine, no beachballs at all, no lags. Looking at usage it says I have 1.72 GB free and 404 MB inactive.
 
I have a2010 Mac book pro, with 4gb I'm running Xcode and my computer is crashing a lot. I've just orderd 8gb ram, I tell u how it goes.
 
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