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Mac Mini M1 8 Gb not enough RAM for Facebook?!

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maurihamm

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Hello,

I'm a big Apple fan, but I'm not a power user. I use my Mac for music, YouTube, general browsing, iMessages, document editing and slides. Basic stuff.
So I read somewhere the Mini with 8 Gb would be more than enough for me, and bought that one.
Today I was navigating in Facebook, just seeing the posts and using Messenger to write to a friend, and received a Safari alert that this site is consuming too much memory. When I checked Activity monitor indeed there was more than 1 Gb of Swap memory.

So, I'd like to ask, is this a Facebook problem in general (like it's hogging too much memory from my Mac or MacOS in general?), or did I make a mistake and should've gotten the 16 GB Mac?
My return period is over, so in order to get a new one, I would have to sell it and buy a new one, losing money of course. And backup, and restore...
But on the long term, I don't want to have a computer that is unable to handle even the more basic stuff!
Please advice. Thanks!
 
I think Facebook just sucks (for this and a number of other reasons). My eight-core Mac Pro with 24GB of RAM is incredibly laggy when browsing Facebook, and sometimes the page just goes completely blank and that's the end.
 
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chrome + fb will chock to death ram either windows laptop or macos.Basic swap is okay

** The only for me concern is slowness upon ram is choke (developer)
 
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dmccloud said:
Facebook is a resource hog, mainly because it constantly tries to harvest every piece of information regarding your activities on and offline. The site has actually gotten worse over the last 4-5 months, to the point at which I never look at it on a computer anymore.
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the new layout one my imac 2017 is crazy bad responsive. The ipad version a lot of bugs. Only good on iphone and hog resources
 
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maurihamm said:
Hello,

I'm a big Apple fan, but I'm not a power user. I use my Mac for music, YouTube, general browsing, iMessages, document editing and slides. Basic stuff.
So I read somewhere the Mini with 8 Gb would be more than enough for me, and bought that one.
Today I was navigating in Facebook, just seeing the posts and using Messenger to write to a friend, and received a Safari alert that this site is consuming too much memory. When I checked Activity monitor indeed there was more than 1 Gb of Swap memory.

So, I'd like to ask, is this a Facebook problem in general (like it's hogging too much memory from my Mac or MacOS in general?), or did I make a mistake and should've gotten the 16 GB Mac?
My return period is over, so in order to get a new one, I would have to sell it and buy a new one, losing money of course. And backup, and restore...
But on the long term, I don't want to have a computer that is unable to handle even the more basic stuff!
Please advice. Thanks!
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I have 16gb and I get that on reddit, disney+, etc. Some sites are just **** like that.
 
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1GB of swap isn’t that big a deal unless you “feel it”. That message Safari showed; It will show that irrespective of how much RAM the computer has as a whole if a single page uses “a large amount”. I’ve gotten that message on my iMac with 32GB of memory, and plenty free.
 
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I've used FB in the past on my 2015 MacBook Pro 15 with no problems. But I'm running adware and tracking blockers. I've been kicked off FB several times - apparently they don't like not being able to track you.
 
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pshufd said:
I've used FB in the past on my 2015 MacBook Pro 15 with no problems. But I'm running adware band tracking lockers. I've been kicked off FB several times - apparently they don't like not being able to track you.
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actually they argue with apple ios14 . for me , i remove the tracking website . Dont sell /suggest me anything online :)
 
For heavy use like Facebook I would wait for a new Mac Pro which will probably have 64 cores.

On a more serious note don't worry about it. Better yet, stop using Facebook.
 
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UBS28 said:
I have never seen this message on any of my Intel Mac's. Is this a M1 thing?
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Nope. As mentioned above, I can make it happen on certain sites on my 2020 iMac 27” (32GB RAM, 10700K CPU). It’s just if a page requests too much memory Safari will flag it regardless of system specs. It’s just the Safari app going “Really? This can’t be right” even when the website just is that poorly written. That said I haven’t gotten it on Facebook either, but I am also not really on Facebook so... That explains that, haha
 
maurihamm said:
Hello,

I'm a big Apple fan, but I'm not a power user. I use my Mac for music, YouTube, general browsing, iMessages, document editing and slides. Basic stuff.
So I read somewhere the Mini with 8 Gb would be more than enough for me, and bought that one.
Today I was navigating in Facebook, just seeing the posts and using Messenger to write to a friend, and received a Safari alert that this site is consuming too much memory. When I checked Activity monitor indeed there was more than 1 Gb of Swap memory.

So, I'd like to ask, is this a Facebook problem in general (like it's hogging too much memory from my Mac or MacOS in general?), or did I make a mistake and should've gotten the 16 GB Mac?
My return period is over, so in order to get a new one, I would have to sell it and buy a new one, losing money of course. And backup, and restore...
But on the long term, I don't want to have a computer that is unable to handle even the more basic stuff!
Please advice. Thanks!
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Did you notice a slow down or performance issue with your computer? I get that message with many websites like Facebook, CNN, BBC, Google etc, but have never has a performance issue with the computer or other tasks I was working on.
 
I've had the same thing on my 8GB M1 MacBook Air. It doesn't actually slow anything, it's just Facebook being, well, Facebook. If it really irritates, just use Chrome, say, for Facebook. Alternatively, ignore the message in Safari.
 
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