24GB unified memory or 48GB, need advice.

[MBP1991]

Hey guys, planning to buy a MacBook Pro M4 PRO 16 14 CPU and 20 GPU, but not sure how much unified memory I need?

I am day trader, have Telegram, Discord and Spotify open, have like 7 tabs in Safari and 10 tabs in Chrome. 5 of them are exchanges. One tab is the TradingView website.

Thank you in advance.

 

[jabbr]

what is your typical memory pressure in Activity Monitor like?

 

[MBP1991]

what is your typical memory pressure in Activity Monitor like?

I'm on MacBook Pro 14 2020 i5 with 16GB ram lol, its always 100%

 

[jabbr]

would you consider the base M4 with 32GB upgrade? Sounds like memory matters more for you than all out multi-core CPU performance. You'd also get better battery life.

 

[MBP1991]

would you consider the base M4 with 32GB upgrade? Sounds like memory matters more for you than all out multi-core CPU performance. You'd also get better battery life.

no base M4 on 16 inch and I need 16 inch for sure this time haha

 

[dimme]

I am in the same boat. My head is telling me to go for 48GB but my gut is saying I am waisting money.

 

[MBP1991]

I am in the same boat. My head is telling me to go for 48GB but my gut is saying I am waisting money.

Yup, absolutely the same. I think I'm getting the 48GB, don't want to change the laptop in 4 years haha

 

[Mr.Fox]

Hey guys, planning to buy a MacBook Pro M4 PRO 16 14 CPU and 20 GPU, but not sure how much unified memory I need?

I am day trader, have Telegram, Discord and Spotify open, have like 7 tabs in Safari and 10 tabs in Chrome. 5 of them are exchanges. One tab is the TradingView website.

Thank you in advance.

Buy 48GB and don't sweat it. I have already written many times, buy memory with a reserve for the future, because it cannot be upgraded.

 

[zarathu]

You can always close down an app. With the memory leakages in control in Monta Ray I always kept the Activity Monitor open, and still do to monitor leakage with VTDecoder XPService in Sona Ma

But using Topaz or Tone mapping in Affinity Photo, I watch the memory usage graph inch up. For me 48 GB with my photo apps is a no brainer. If I wasn’t using photo apps, then 24 GB would work fine.