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Should I have bought the 8-core MacBook Pro or upgraded to 32GB RAM?

Hieveryone

Hieveryone

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I bought the 2019 15" MacBook Pro base model at launch, 6-core and 16GB RAM.

Usually I have 100-200 tabs on Chrome open, about 100 live data feeds, 2-3 live charts, and am streaming live 3-4 news channels.

It actually runs great except when I have the 100+ tabs on Chrome open.

Do I need to upgrade?

I also have it connected to a 24" LG 4K monitor which I got from the Apple Store.
 
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Hieveryone said:
I bought the 2019 15" MacBook Pro base model at launch, 6-core and 16GB RAM.

Usually I have 100-200 tabs on Chrome open, about 100 live data feeds, 2-3 live charts, and am streaming live 3-4 news channels.

It actually runs great except when I have the 100+ tabs on Chrome open.

Do I need to upgrade?

I also have it connected to a 24" LG 4K monitor which I got from the Apple Store.
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just out of curiosity what could you possibly need 200 tabs open for?
 
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Fthree said:
just out of curiosity what could you possibly need 200 tabs open for?
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I sift through 900-1000 emails a day opening a new tab for the ones I’m going to reply to
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Erehy Dobon said:
Google Chrome is not written to take advantage of multiple processors.

It is a memory resource pig so more RAM is a better upgrade choice for people like you.
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Would safari be a better choice for that many tabs?
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barbu said:
Or they could upgrade to Safari :^)
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I’ll give it a shot and see if that helps.
 
Hieveryone said:
Would safari be a better choice for that many tabs?
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You would be the best person to answer that question.

No one here knows exactly which websites you run in each tab. Plus, you may be using extensions that others here do not.
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Hieveryone said:
I sift through 900-1000 emails a day opening a new tab for the ones I’m going to reply to
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LOL, webmail.

Good luck with that. I don’t use webmail so I can’t advise you.

I hereby bow out of this discussion.
 
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Erehy Dobon said:
You would be the best person to answer that question.

No one here knows exactly which websites you run in each tab. Plus, you may be using extensions that others here do not.
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LOL, webmail.

Good luck with that. I don’t use webmail so I can’t advise you.

I hereby bow out of this discussion.
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What’s wrong with webmail?

Is it not as cool as iPhone mail? Lol
 
Hieveryone said:
What’s wrong with webmail?

Is it not as cool as iPhone mail? Lol
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Nothing, but if you have that many emails to reply to you might look into products that would let you catagorize / save and then reply to them.

For example, EagleFiler lets you create folders that you can quickly save an email to, and then opena nd responce as needed. You can setup mail on the Mac to download emails from your account and then save them, assuming the ablity to access the webmail with a mail client has not been blocked.

You could have folders based on priority, client, contract, job, etc. depending on your needs. that would help with any ram issues you are having.
 
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Wow. I'm pretty sure even gmail web lets you add flags for followup and things of that nature. Try that.

I personally do far too often wind up with both Safari and Chrome open concurrently, with many tabs in each, but nearly all are for work showing different issues, queries, docs, etc. And yes, Chrome is indeed a pig on RAM. I'm not convinced Safari is much better once you get to high #s of tabs, but YMMV.

If this were solely for webmail...yes, try Safari, try Brave, try Firefox, try Opera - or a normal desktop mail client (Apple's Mail.app works fine w/gmail) and/or tagging.

I've just never heard anyone upgrading an already reasonable to high amount of RAM to even more....to do webmail.
 
jlc1978 said:
Nothing, but if you have that many emails to reply to you might look into products that would let you catagorize / save and then reply to them.

For example, EagleFiler lets you create folders that you can quickly save an email to, and then opena nd responce as needed. You can setup mail on the Mac to download emails from your account and then save them, assuming the ablity to access the webmail with a mail client has not been blocked.

You could have folders based on priority, client, contract, job, etc. depending on your needs. that would help with any ram issues you are having.
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Well this is after a strict filter in place, and from there I need to look at all of them, because I won't know which one's I'm going to reply to until I see it.

Without a filter, I don't how many it would be, but it would be more than the 900-1000 I already need to sift through, possibly several thousand, and it would be impossible to manage.
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wegster said:
Wow. I'm pretty sure even gmail web lets you add flags for followup and things of that nature. Try that.

I personally do far too often wind up with both Safari and Chrome open concurrently, with many tabs in each, but nearly all are for work showing different issues, queries, docs, etc. And yes, Chrome is indeed a pig on RAM. I'm not convinced Safari is much better once you get to high #s of tabs, but YMMV.

If this were solely for webmail...yes, try Safari, try Brave, try Firefox, try Opera - or a normal desktop mail client (Apple's Mail.app works fine w/gmail) and/or tagging.

I've just never heard anyone upgrading an already reasonable to high amount of RAM to even more....to do webmail.
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Great idea! I have Opera, Safari, and Chrome. If Opera or Safari work then I'm good but otherwise I'll try Opera and Brave.
 
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No issues with Safari, except maybe 1 or 2 beachballs over the course of a couple hours.

Not bad IMO.

Thanks everyone!! So glad I don't need to sell this computer and upgrade to 32GB RAM and/or 8-cores!
 
drxcm said:
Yikes, sounds like you need a spam filter, or an assistant!
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I've thought about hiring an intern to help me, but they won't be able to determine who to reply to and who to not reply to. Does that make sense? Like I already have a strict filter, but after that I still get about 900-1000 a day, and then I have to see which ones I want to reply to. How would the intern make that decision you know? It's a personal thing and judgement thing as to who I want to reply to.

EDIT: Many are the same people so that helps. It goes by quick enough, although it would be nice if I could figure out a way to get help and make it go by faster. Still takes me a couple hours a day.
 
Hieveryone said:
I've thought about hiring an intern to help me, but they won't be able to determine who to reply to and who to not reply to. Does that make sense? Like I already have a strict filter, but after that I still get about 900-1000 a day, and then I have to see which ones I want to reply to. How would the intern make that decision you know? It's a personal thing and judgement thing as to who I want to reply to.

EDIT: Many are the same people so that helps. It goes by quick enough, although it would be nice if I could figure out a way to get help and make it go by faster. Still takes me a couple hours a day.
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Mail's smart folders allow a pretty wide variety of filters. You could filter by name; or if there were key words tah indicate a higher priority creaet folders for those key words. You could also filter by name and key words or topics concurrently to separate out those messages as well, then let someone look through those that you consider less important and either reply or flag for your review.

I use smart folders to sort senders so I can see who I need to reply to based on priorities.

I'm sure their are programs that have more advanced capabilities to sort than mail but since mail does the job fo rme, along with EagleFiler, I have not explored them.
 
You can try out Safari for the tabs I usually have 20-25 open and without any issue on it.
 
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