The Physical Memory is on a hardware level and is the amount of RAM on your device. We want to focus on the following items in the Memory tab: A screenshot of the Activity Monitor app in macOS with normal use. On macOS Activity Monitory is the utility tool force quitting apps, checking energy consumption of your Mac and apps, and check CPU and memory usage.
I chose the latter and took a closer look at Activity Monitor. I guessed 16 GB would be enough.Īt this point, I could just follow my sense or do more research. Most of my work consists of using Safari, Chrome for web development, Visual Studio Code, Notes, OneNote, Microsoft Remote Desktop and a Markdown editor. This was great, but it made it difficult for deciding if the 16 GB was enough for my future needs. So, why was there 10 GB of memory in use? After some research, I found out that macOS uses as much memory as available for speeding things up. And after opening apps like Affinity Designer and Visual Sutdio Code, it remained at 10 GB. The only apps I had open were Notes, Safari with four tabs, finder with two tabs and iA Writer. For example, at one point I looked at the activity monitor, and it said 10 GB of memory in use and 5 GB of cached files. But, it did not answer how memory on a Mac works. It also has 16 GB of memory and that was sufficient during the time it was my main machine. That price brought me to the questions how much memory is required for my workflow and how does memory work on a Mac? Side note: at the time I also looked and the Alienware X17 and Dell only charged € 20 for expanding the RAM with 16 GB. I doubted about the amount of RAM, but the € 469 that Apple charges for 16 GB of additional memory is ridiculous.
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One of the reasons to go with the big MacBook Pro was that I wanted the bigger screen -I’m not a fan of external monitors- and this one is gorgeous. Recently, I bought a new MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip.
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