MacOS Sierra RAM Requirement

[talmy]

Does anyone knows the minimum memory requirement to run MacOS Sierra? My guess is definitely more than 4GB since the rumored cutoff is built date 2009. Wondered whether Sierra would work with 6GB RAM!

Since Apple's requirements don't list memory but models it should work with any of those models regardless of the amount of memory. I doubt that Siri uses more memory than voice dictation, and probably much less, which runs fine on a 2GB MBA with El Capitan (and is also qualified for Sierra).

I've just verified that Sierra does run on a 2GB MBA. It is tight -- Sierra seems to be using about 80MB more RAM than El Capitan does, but it's not bad for a minimum 5 year old computer.

 

[JTToft]

I've just verified that Sierra does run on a 2GB MBA. It is tight -- Sierra seems to be using about 80MB more RAM than El Capitan does, but it's not bad for a minimum 5 year old computer.

Cool. Thanks.
That wouldn't be likely to change when the final release comes, would it?

 

[talmy]

Cool. Thanks.
That wouldn't be likely to change when the final release comes, would it?

Likely to get better as beta builds tend to be non-optimal.

 

[DavidLynch]

I would've been very surprised if Sierra had a 4GB ram requirement.