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hi i am a university student thinking of getting a new MacBook air m1 512gb but i need help picking between 8gb or 16gb ram. i use my laptop for normal school stuff but also to play some games like hollow knight. i make websites in wix, design graphics in canvas, and use discord a lot. most of...

Sorry I'm not all that tech-literate, so would just like to make sure I'm not buying the wrong thing before going ahead. Looking to upgrade the RAM on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020), that currently has 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4. Is there any meangfull difference between these options that I should...

Hi folks, Debating 32 vs 64GB RAM for new MacBook Pro. I know I need more than 16GB. I’m unsure I’ll need more than 32, but I might. So I’m interested in which RAM hungry apps you use, so I can decide for myself if 64GB is worth it for me. Thanks!

Hi! I am new to mac. o_O Background: I am currently a undergraduate in Computer Science major, having an old laptop with Ubuntu and Windows dual system installed. I mainly use Linux Ubuntu (for fun and coding XD) and rarely use Windows (dual system in my laptop) for game or Office365...

Hello Community! Can you help me here? Days ago, when I was still using my 2013 MBA (8/128), I was getting this numbers: Using in the first days the M1 MBA (8/256), for the same workflow, I'm getting this: What is going on with my RAM utilization? How can I fix this? I think this isn't...

There have been a lot of posts on the above subject scattered throughout the Apple Silicon, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro fora and so I decided to delve deeper into the close to 9-year-old 512GB SSD of my heavily used MacBook Pro that has 16GB RAM. So far I have established that at a typical time...

I've been running a late 2015 MBA and looking to finally replace it! I'm fairly incompetent when it comes to comparing tech specs, so looking for some buying advice. I use my laptop religiously for uni, so lots of chrome, word/powerpoint/excel, notion usage, which ive had minimal problems with...

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...

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Hi. I've been using 2010 Polycarbonate MacBook as a work computer for a while. I just needed cheap machine with onbard LAN port and macOS since this computer was used only to access some web and configuring network equipment and I really prefer to work on this kind of things in a Mac...

Here's a pricing experiment: Since we now know the M2 chip is able to be loaded with up to 24gb of unified, with options of 8gb and 16gb, it stands to reason that the future M2 Pro/Max Macbooks will have up to 48gb and 96gb of unified memory respectively. Assuming M2 Pro MacBooks will have...

I’m a computer science major who will have big coding assignments but nothing crazy. I don’t do a lot of high end editing on a regular basis. My only professional use would be these coding projects, other than that, maybe a light gaming(not a big gamer at all), Netflix and everyday things on...

Now that the dust is well and truly settled on the M1Pro Macbook Pros - what's the general consensus now on whether it's better to sink money into RAM or SSD capacity? I've aware of the Max Tech videos which point towards SSD and relying on virtual memory to pick up the space, but that doesn't...

Hey all I'm about to buy a mac studio tomorrow and will do a lot of rendering from after effects with it, I was wondering if anyone knows the difference in render speeds for the 48core m1 ultra with 64gb of ram vs 128 gb and if the 48core m1 ultra with 128gb is faster than the 64core with 64gb...

2017 IMAC did the normal upgrades samsung evo plus 2 tb, qvo 2tb, i7700k 4.2, 128 gb ram. thing has been working great, still is. did the upgrades little under a year ago.Been dual booting windows 11 on a external 256gb nvme m.2. gen 3 i took out of my laptop after i put a 980 pro in it. It was...

So, I've been eagerly awaiting the new MacBook Air, and now the time is soon here. But then comes the question of how much RAM to get? I'm a writer and mainly use web based apps for work (Google Docs, Arcweave, Google Drive) via Safari and Chrome, plus your general chat apps (Google Chats...

I am trying to figure out how much RAM I use, by looking at the activity monitor. I am on an i7 32GB MacBook. The activity monitor tells me I am using 20gb of ram and 14gb of app memory right now (and most of the time). There is no swap and pressure is green. As I am already at 14gb of app...

Since my 2017 iMac running Monterey has caught the kernel panic disease I'd like to check the RAM. It was suggested elsewhere that I try MemTest86. I followed the installation and boot instructions here: Creating A MemTest86 Bootable Drive..., but I can't get the USB drive to boot. I tried three...

I know that Macs use a lot of ram even when they aren't doing anything to be efficient but I've noticed that lately the memory consumption on my m1 air base variant has been around 6.4 gb along with high memory pressure(orange colour) from last couple of days even when I've just opened like 4-5...

Hey everyone, Currently running into a constant issue with my work desktop Mac Pro 2013 that we've tried several times to fix but keeps persisting. The model is a Late 2013 Mac Pro with a 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 Processor and 32GB 1866 MHz DDR3 Memory (2x16GB sticks). Since I began...