Lion animations like 8Gb RAM

[Mackilroy]

Don't be so pedantic. :roll eyes:

And be grateful you got the decency of a response to that piss excuse of a reply.

You might not get downrated so much if you didn't sound so angry.

Regardless, problems suck, hopefully you can find an inexpensive (or free) solution. For myself, I've got 6GB of RAM and have yet to see any sluggish animations under Lion, but my free RAM isn't being turned into inactive RAM either.

 

[mark28]

I've seen quite a few posts complaining about laggy animations in Lion (launchpad, etc). I experienced this too, but have just upgraded from 4Gb to 8Gb RAM and now it's all as smooth as silk, so it seems Lion likes a fair bit of RAM.

Lion animations are smooth here with 4 gb of RAM and this is with World of Wacraft running in Windowed mode and some other programs?

But if the 8 gb RAM made the Lion animations smoother, then it's something very interesting. Does Lion really work better with 8 gb of Ram? If so, that's really disappointing that you would need 8 gb of Ram for Lion to work optimally.

 

[WeegieMac]

You might not get downrated so much if you didn't sound so angry.

Regardless, problems suck, hopefully you can find an inexpensive (or free) solution. For myself, I've got 6GB of RAM and have yet to see any sluggish animations under Lion, but my free RAM isn't being turned into inactive RAM either.

I got downgraded for asking a simple question mate, so I might as well sound angry!

 

[andymac2210]

I upgraded to 8GM ram out of necessity after a couple of weeks of Lion.

Safe to say it's been a massive improvement, but after a few hours uptime (from sleep, computer never gets turned off) there's a 2GB safari web content ram hog and a 1 GB kernel task + other stuff.

I just restart safari and it frees ram.