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Is 16gb over 8gb worth 400$ ?

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Fanthomas

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Mar 18, 2012
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Hey guys! I'm a student and I use FCPX and Adobe After Effects to do my projects. I hesitate between two rMBP models. I don't make long and heavy projects (they rarely last more than 10 minutes each) but I work with Full HD 1080p footage. Do I need 16gb for 400$ over 8gb. My budget is already taxed by the heavy cost of a mac. I was wondering if I could be fine with only 8gb!

Thanks for your opinion!
 
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Fanthomas said:
Hey guys! I'm a student and I use FCPX and Adobe After Effects to do my projects. I hesitate between two rMBP models. I don't make long and heavy projects (they rarely last more than 10 minutes each) but I work with Full HD 1080p footage. Do I need 16gb for 400$ over 8gb. My budget is already taxed by the heavy cost of a mac. I was wondering if I could be fine with only 8gb!

Thanks for your opinion!
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With Mavericks, 8GB is more than enough. With memory compression, 8gb is like have 13 to 15Gb of RAM, you will be fine.
 
Fanthomas said:
Hey guys! I'm a student and I use FCPX and Adobe After Effects to do my projects. I hesitate between two rMBP models. I don't make long and heavy projects (they rarely last more than 10 minutes each) but I work with Full HD 1080p footage. Do I need 16gb for 400$ over 8gb. My budget is already taxed by the heavy cost of a mac. I was wondering if I could be fine with only 8gb!

Thanks for your opinion!
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You will be fine with 8GB, also upgrading the CPU will probably shave a few seconds of exporting time so don't worry too much about it and get the model that won't impact your finances.
 
Generally speaking, <=8GB is for those who don't ever open Activity Monitor and agonize over what OS X is doing. You're probably fine with 8GB. It's still an awful lot of memory.

Unfortunately, my OCD made me rather happy to get 16GB, so whatever... ;)
 
TechZeke said:
With Mavericks, 8GB is more than enough. With memory compression, 8gb is like have 13 to 15Gb of RAM, you will be fine.
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Definitely! The Mavericks memory compression is very good.

I currently have 8GB physical but am using 10.51GB and zero swap, have seen this as high as 14GB with compression and my usage...
 
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