Snow Leopard happy with 2GB?

[netdog]

On my MBA, I run VMWare XP, Mail, Safari, Skype and Messenger almost all the time quite happily under Leopard. Does SL have a bigger RAM footprint that might cramp me on this machine that is limited to 2GB?

 

[SparkleX]

It will run fine, I think. I'm running Snow Leopard on a Mac mini with 2 GB RAM and Parallels runs just fine, so VMware Fusion will too.

 

[Hellhammer]

About the same as Leopard has. I noticed it has less free RAM but more inactive RAM (almost same as free, not in use). I have 4GB RAM and currently 1.5GB in use and 2.5GB not in use and uptime is 7 days 4 minutes and I've dealt with Photoshop etc...

 

[Eraserhead]

I'm running it just fine on my MacBook with 2GB RAM.

 

[Compile 'em all]

I am personally not content with 2GB. I continuously have xcode, IB, Tweetie, Mail, iTunes, Safari, Photoshop CS3, skype, 3-4 finder windows opened, with occasional use of preview and spotlight. And let me tell you, It swaps like there is no tomorrow...A LOT. I will probably upgrade to 4GB after I send it in for repair cause a problem I have with the hinge.

 

[Vster]

I'm running it just fine on my MacBook with 2GB RAM.

Same, and even WoW seems to be running better. (All the effects down to the lowest)

 

[Scarlet Fever]

I am personally not content with 2GB.

There are people who fill Mac Pros to the brim with RAM just to run Adobe apps. No wonder page outs are happening with 7 other apps running as well.

 

[greatmaju]

The Requirements of SL is 1GB RAM. I have 2GB and it runs fine. But photoshop needs more. Perhaps More then 4GB to run some more of the Adobe collection. Though I rarely run more then 2 Adobe Apps.

 

[simplymuzik3]

I was running Premiere CS4 on my 13" MBP with 2GB ram. Guess how much virtual memory it was using? 33GB!!!! I really need an upgrade to 8 gigs!