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How much RAM would I need?

SkriBlerLenZ said:
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Trouble is, this thread (with this sentence) will be here long after you've lost the badge.

Chuck-Norris said:
can i get away with 8gb?
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This is your first post in this thread. Are you in the same situation as the OP? In that case, your question has been answered above. If not, what is your situation? What software are you trying to run? There's no way to answer this question out of the blue like that.

(As the late Duchess of Windsor once said, more or less: "You can't be too rich, too thin, or have too much RAM.")
 
Chuck-Norris said:
can i get away with 8gb?
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I do. The only thing I find running the CS applications is that something has a habit of grabbing RAM and not giving it back, causing the machine to slow to a crawl during the day.

Run Activity Monitor on the System Memory tab (I know there are plenty who'll say that 'Inactive RAM' is freed up as applications require it, but it ain't) and when you see the green section of the RAM pie chart dwindle and the blue one grow, fire up a Terminal window and type purge to free up the memory again.

Cheers

Jim
 
Efrem said:
Trouble is, this thread (with this sentence) will be here long after you've lost the badge.

This is your first post in this thread. Are you in the same situation as the OP? In that case, your question has been answered above. If not, what is your situation? What software are you trying to run? There's no way to answer this question out of the blue like that.

(As the late Duchess of Windsor once said, more or less: "You can't be too rich, too thin, or have too much RAM.")
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No, got a retina base model with 8gb of ram.

wondering if i would need 16gb

other then basic stuff everyone does, email, facebook etc, other stuff i do is microsoft office, imovi for yotube videos and i run parraells to run window 7. why windows? only to use cause there windows office is better then macs. thats about it
 
Chuck-Norris said:
No, got a retina base model with 8gb of ram.

wondering if i would need 16gb

other then basic stuff everyone does, email, facebook etc, other stuff i do is microsoft office, imovi for yotube videos and i run parraells to run window 7. why windows? only to use cause there windows office is better then macs. thats about it
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8GB will get you by easily. Set Parallels to only allow the guest OS to access 2GB, and you'll do fine. Even 4GB would probably do you alright, so long as you're not using Parallels alongside iMovie while working on a big project.

Though like everyone else has said beforehand, getting 16GB won't hurt you at all. $200 is a little expensive for an extra 8GB of ram, but hell, you bought a Retina MBP. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the overall price. Since you can't upgrade it later, I'd suggest going whole hog and getting as much as you can now. At the very least, it'd give you a little more future proofing.
 
Jim Campbell said:
I'll mention that I'm only running 8Gb because I didn't think my 2010 MBP would take 16Gb. I understand that it probably will, but that Apple doesn't officially say so…

Cheers

Jim
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No, got a retina base model with 8gb of ram.

wondering if i would need 16gb

other then basic stuff everyone does, email, facebook etc, other stuff i do is microsoft office, imovi for yotube videos and i run parraells to run window 7. why windows? only to use cause there windows office is better then macs. thats about it
 
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