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0 pointsalpaca1282mo ago0 comments

A couple YouTube tabs are enough if you leave them running for long enough. Just one YT browser process will easily take up 1-4GB sooner or later.

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NetMageSCW2mo ago

Or it won’t because Chrome and MacOS will know how much RAM is available and manage it effectively.

alpaca128OP2mo ago

I am talking from experience with an M1 & 8GB RAM. I had to restart either the browser or the YouTube browser processes at least once every couple days to stop the whole system from lagging.

bluedino2mo ago

A couple Facebook Marketplace tabs that have videos of the item for sale would absolutely crush my 2017 MacBook Pro.

My M1 Air would slow down a little, but was still usable doing the same thing. And they both had 8GB of memory.

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