![]() ![]() and I know for a fact that I will never have 20 chrome tabs open while I have iphoto running while I have autocad etc. writing in and out is practically instantaneous.Īnyone who has 8 GB RAM, I would encourage you try to get your system to slow down and report back if you are successful. page ins and page outs and pretty much as rapid and speedy as RAM itself. The main distinction here is the fact that because of Flash Memory. ![]() and there were several page ins and page outs. and I was extremely surprised to see that even with just 8 GB or RAM. I swear my goal was to somehow bring the system to lag or slow down. and in between I was hopping over to autocad thru the parallel and doing some work on it. I was browsing thru all the 20 tabs that were open left and right. NOt even a single time was there any lag or any issues at all. and ALWAYS seem to leave me at least 100 MB or free RAM. ![]() mac os x alloted quite a big chunk to swap memory (or virtual memory). I was pushing more than 8 gig of RAM usage. Had iphoto on the mac end fired up that connects to an iphoto library stored on my NAS. (9 on mac side and about 8 or 10 on windows side). Had 8 - 10 Tabs open on each of the chrome. the windows one is obviously open thru parallels. Had chrome open on both mac os x and windows 7. So i decided to test how much the 8 GB can handle. then it would have cost me a lot more than the 2200 that I had spent. I had a great deal on a 512 GB 2.6 Ghz quad core i7 with 8 GB of RAM.along with apple care. for me, it wasn't simply a question of spending additional 200 bucks. I was in a similar dilemma.not knowing if I should get 16 GB ram or 8 GB would be sufficient. People seem to forget about memory swapping.
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