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Macbook Pro RAM - some data

MartinAppleGuy said:
You are not pushing the system RAM fully. Another 4Gb could still be compressed before any page outs. I always recommend getting more RAM if the RAM pressure is red, but your RAM pressure is still very low, as you are not pushing your system. If you plan to keep a new Macbook Pro for 5 years, I would still say 8Gb of RAM would be fine. What programs do you run at the same time?
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Not many...occasionally Photoshop otherwise it is just Internet Browsing, 10+ Tabs. Word, some APPS running in the Menu Bar....Some DJ Software's etc...occasional Gaming...Movies...etc...
 
augustya said:
Not many...occasionally Photoshop otherwise it is just Internet Browsing, 10+ Tabs. Word, some APPS running in the Menu Bar....Some DJ Software's etc...occasional Gaming...Movies...etc...
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A simple restart will fix everything.
 
yjchua95 said:
But time consuming if the Mac is running off a HDD and not an SSD.
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There is a free app on the Mac App Store that free's all RAM just like a restart. It is number one in the Utilities Top Chart section of the Mac App Store with 5* rating. I tried it myself, lowered my RAM all the way down to 1.8Gb. It is basically clearing App Cache. It if free and only 3Mb download.
 
MartinAppleGuy said:
There is a free app on the Mac App Store that free's all RAM just like a restart. It is number one in the Utilities Top Chart section of the Mac App Store with 5* rating. I tried it myself, lowered my RAM all the way down to 1.8Gb. It is basically clearing App Cache. It if free and only 3Mb download.
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And it is secret :)
 
MartinAppleGuy said:
There is a free app on the Mac App Store that free's all RAM just like a restart. It is number one in the Utilities Top Chart section of the Mac App Store with 5* rating. I tried it myself, lowered my RAM all the way down to 1.8Gb. It is basically clearing App Cache. It if free and only 3Mb download.
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Well you said 'restart' and not 'free up memory with an app'.

I use FreeMemory myself.
 
yjchua95 said:
Well you said 'restart' and not 'free up memory with an app'.

I use FreeMemory myself.
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Yes, but the recommendation of the restart was to free up RAM in the first place. Therefor, it was only another idea that if the person I was speaking to wanted to free there RAM faster than waiting 30-50 seconds for there computer to restart with the HDD being the primary backing storage device.

So what are you on about? Are you one of these people that states something just for the sake of stating it?
 
MartinAppleGuy said:
Yes, but the recommendation of the restart was to free up RAM in the first place. Therefor, it was only another idea that if the person I was speaking to wanted to free there RAM faster than waiting 30-50 seconds for there computer to restart with the HDD being the primary backing storage device.

So what are you on about? Are you one of these people that states something just for the sake of stating it?
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Perhaps.
 
ru7hl355 said:
Doesnt Mavericks try and use all memory available to keep things snappy, then start to compress once it does begin to reach a the maximum? my RAM is always pretty much 7.5 to 7.9gb and thats with multiple open apps (Photoshop, PHPStorm, Chrome(10+ tabs), iTerm, Mail, Adium, SublimeText, Messages and 2 external HD monitors connected). haven't ever noticed it lagging....

I also dont think iStat gives enough of a in depth reading since Mavericks was released due to the new memory management.
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2 External displays running at a maximum of 2560 * 1600 + the in-built display will only take up 12MB RAM sitting at the desktop. It's a negligible factor regarding getting more RAM. (https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=18695667#post18695667)
 
MartinAppleGuy said:
Thank you for that :) Again, very interesting. Thanks for the post. What was the exact spec of the Mac you bought and how long do you plan to keep it?
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Sorry not to reply I haven't been back for a while. We got the standard Macbook Pro 8Gb but with large screen. We'll keep it just as long as we can because we only use it for web, email, WP, watching video, etc, nothing fancy. Like I said somewhere, we won't upgrade OS much so future proofing isn't so important to us. Best wishes.
 
unkleE said:
Sorry not to reply I haven't been back for a while. We got the standard Macbook Pro 8Gb but with large screen. We'll keep it just as long as we can because we only use it for web, email, WP, watching video, etc, nothing fancy. Like I said somewhere, we won't upgrade OS much so future proofing isn't so important to us. Best wishes.
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Don't worry about the reply :) What I was thinking was to use your logic, but in a different way. If updating the OS every year with 4X the minimum RAM requirement gets you 4-5 years, and staying on the OS it shipped with can get you around 10 years before it it almost unusable, then why not upgrade the OS 2 or 3 times then keep it on that for a total of 10 years. That would equal 13 years.

If you are going for the "keep it on the one OS for as long as possible" technique, would you consider at least upgrading the OS one seeing as OSX 10.10 (or 11) could be as big a deal as OSX 10.0 was to OS 9?

Anyway, thanks for telling me, just wanted to see what the man/woman behind the math had done :)
 
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