04-03-2020, 10:47 PM
Depends on what you are going to do with the Mac. 8 GB would be the minimum now, an SSD for a drive may make it a bit less noticeable when the system has to go to swap.
But from a what I am seeing, some of the software developers are just not paying attention to memory management at all. I see many mainstream applications just blowing up their RAM usage with fairly obvious memory leaks. In that environment about all you can do to keep up with their sloppiness is have more RAM installed.
P.S. This also applies to recent versions of macOS. Add in a plethora of background services that many of which could just be turned off unless needed, the OS has its own problems.
But from a what I am seeing, some of the software developers are just not paying attention to memory management at all. I see many mainstream applications just blowing up their RAM usage with fairly obvious memory leaks. In that environment about all you can do to keep up with their sloppiness is have more RAM installed.
P.S. This also applies to recent versions of macOS. Add in a plethora of background services that many of which could just be turned off unless needed, the OS has its own problems.