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0 pointswhatever113d ago0 comments

This is PR speak.

No 8GB, compressed or whatever was not enough for MacOS when M1 was released. Even for simple outlook, web browser, excel type of workflows.

After 3-4 hours of work, the window manager process itself is consuming gigabytes of memory. Not even considering any browser or electron apps.

My M1 Mac mini was choking up so much that I had to trade it in. That was back in 2021. Today apps are even more bloated.

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jorvi13d ago

Yeah, you never owned a Mac and are just making stuff up. I have no urge to debate zealots. Bye.

I am not the one claiming that apple does magic with memory. FYI right now I just opened monitor (M1 16GB) and sorted by memory:

1. WindowServer : 4.33GB 2. Safari pages (~10 open): ~ 5GB (monitor reports per tab) 3. Outlook: 1.45 GB 4. VS Code: 1.43 GB 5. Excel: 1.25 GB

Swap Used: 6.46GB.

Memory pressure is already orange and machine is slow.

Run `IOAccelMemory` in the terminal to see what's causing that (dirty and wired columns). It's probably an app with a lot of windows.

Or for general memory `footprint` is good.

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