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  1. Gabebear

    Binned M4-Pro

    The Mac mini has a binned M4-Pro option... There aren't any benchmarks I can find yet, but seems like it's a good deal if you would like the double-speed Thunderbolt and better support for large monitors over the regular M4. I've ordered one, but I wonder what the actual performance downsides...
  2. TheSynchronizer

    Seriously? 8GB used to be enough.. it's becoming less and less the case

    That doesn't even add up near to 8GB :D Meanwhile, Apple still sells base models just shy off a thousand with 8GB equipped. I gotta say, owning this laptop since new it's probably frozen on me less than 10 times. So overall great stability.. however messages like these worry me for the future.
  3. Flyview

    Disabling memory compression

    I wanted to play around with disabling memory compression as I imagine this adds some CPU overhead. I'd like to leave swap enabled. I upgraded the SSD so swap to SSD should be pretty fast. You used to be able to disable memory compression from recovery with: nvram boot-args=vm_compressor=1 The...
    • Flyview
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    • compressed memory memory memory-swap ram
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  4. 2

    Trying to decide if 24GB for M3 MBA is enough

    Hi everyone, I've decided to give a new M3 MacBook Air a shot as my general work computer (mostly the usual browsing/email/chat/Office apps stuff plus a lot of small to medium sized projects in Xcode, Visual Studio Code, Photoshop, Illustrator, and occasionally Final Cut Pro) but am struggling...
  5. macduke

    RAM: Apple Silicon 8GB = 16GB Intel in Topaz AI?

    I was looking at the system requirements for Topaz AI because I haven't upgraded to the newer versions and was curious if they have a build now for Apple Silicon as I have a 14" M3 Max 16/40 64GB on order. I'm looking to upgrade some of my professional tools to avoid the performance impact of...
  6. N

    2023 Mac Mini Apple RAM

    Apple charges $180 for a 8MB upgrade when you purchase a Mac Mini. A quick search on Google shopping shows you can get an 8GB ram stick for around $20. HP sells an 8MB upgrade for $70. Why on earth would Apple ever do this? Is it just pure greed? Why not just charge $40 (double the price) and...
  7. Z

    in which memory bays?

    Can anyone remember in which bays of the mid 2010 27" iMac were the original 2+2 (4GB) of Ram installed? Here is a pic of the situation now, after the installation of 2 more 8GB (16GB). In the pic u can see 20GB of total.
  8. T

    MP 6,1 Memory speed: Is there a real performance difference?

    Hi Now that I've my lovely and beautiful TrashCan to play with, i'm of course willing to max it out as it's so cheap to buy stuff on the market. I've ordered a E5-2667 v2 to keep high clock speed on single core but at the same time a bunch of cores for the one or two WM i'm running on VMWare...
  9. 1

    iPad Pro iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) - performance on iPadOS 16 in 2022

    Hello everyone, I’ve been looking at a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, the 3rd generation model, from 2018. How is the performance on these iPads as of today? The Apple A12X in these is a very capable processor, but they have 4GB of memory. This amount definitely seems low in theory, although the 4th...
    • 1984power
    • Thread
    • ipad pro ipad pro 12.9 ipad pro 12.9 2018 ipad pro 12.9 2020 ipad pro 12.9 3rd gen ipados 16 memory performace stage manager
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: iPad
  10. W

    iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017 won't boot after RAM upgrade to 64GB

    Currently my iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017 has 4 x 8GB DDR4 (2400MHZ) OEM RAM installed. I wanted to max out the RAM to the full 64GB allowed for my model, so I purchased 4 x 16GB DDR4 RAM (2400MHz) to replace the OEM RAM from the following link on Amazon...
    • wolvesfc
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    • hardware memory ram imac 2017 imac
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: iMac
  11. G

    Safari 16 leaking memory

    Will write fast until I have memory left... After upgraded Monterrey, the software update suggested the upgrade of Safari, and I did. Now the page I am viewing and working on it starts do grow up in memory, up to 1GB, 2GB, became unresponsive, stop animating and so on. The rest of the system is...
  12. stylinexpat

    M2 MBA Playing Youtube on Safari

    HAs anyone tried to play various YouTube videos on new MBA and if so does it heat up? If you have numerous tabs open like stock ticker tabs where numbers are constantly flashing and changing with video playing on YouTube or perhaps from a Bloomberg news on trading platform does it slow down or...
  13. Zluckytraveler

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  14. Rebani

    iPhone Show "this day" memories in Photos

    Hi When I got all my photos in OneDrive, every day it showed me "on this day". Ex. today 1st of July, it showed me all pictures takes on this days, through all the years. Now I got alle my photos in Apple Photos instead. I liked this feature in OneDrive, and miss it so much. Is there any way...
  15. A

    MacBook M1 and Chrome

    Hi all For anyones use MacBook M1 with 8 GB. If you had opened 35 tabs in Chrome has Memory in Activity Monitor still green ? Does it still snappy for browsing ? Thank
  16. bmac89

    Virtual Memory Swap?

    Hello, I’m interested to learn more about the virtual memory swap feature. This sounds like what I have been wanting to see added to iPadOS for a long while. Does this mean memory will swap to storage when necessary and will prevent apps refreshing and Safari tabs reloading due to memory...
    • bmac89
    • Thread
    • app refresh memory memory management virtual memory swap
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: iOS 16
  17. G

    Other Possible solutions: Make the app switcher always full and/or eliminate the "not running" state

    The App Switcher on an iPhone always starts out empty after completing setup, then it starts getting filled up as soon as you launch an app for the first time. But because of https://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/10/force-quitting-apps-doesnt-help-battery/, swiping apps out of the App Switcher makes...
  18. M

    Is my M1 MBA using too much swap memory? Why is my Intel MBP not using as much?

    The following Activity Monitor screenshots were taken on idle. M1 MBA 8GB RAM 256GB SSD Monterey: * CPU Load * Memory Pressure * Disk Intel 2019 MBP 16" 64GB RAM 1TB SSD Catalina: * CPU Load * Memory Pressure * Disk I use my M1 MBA purely for streaming (mostly YouTube) or...
  19. J

    4 months later: Intel V M1 Max memory

    I've generally been thrilled with my new 14MBP. (Mont 12.2.) However, this week I noticed my memory pressure was in the 'yellow', and straightforward applications such as Discord and What's app was consuming large amounts of memory. I tried the same apps in an identical setup on an 2017...
    • jgbr
    • Thread
    • 14" macbook pro m1 max memory
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  20. thmusic7

    Ready to upgrade my Mac and need some advice.

    Hi. I am a professional Music composer and producer. I need to upgrade my equipment for memory and performance sake. I'm on a budget of $1,200, but willing to spend a little more (or less🤔😉) to get what I need and want. Here's what I have right now. A mid 2012 MacBook Pro at 2.9GHZ DUAL CORE...
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