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if you’re able to afford it to allow this machine to handle more stuff in the future, I’d still recommend 32GBītw, since it’s unified memory, now your GPU needs to share your RAM as well. it’s just whether you feel the speed difference is worth your money. In your case, 16GB may work fine for your lightroom needs without seeing too much performance difference if your workloads often don’t stress the memory to a high level. If an app is properly optimized, and still uses lots ram, that means your workload does require more RAM to run at best possible speeds. using more RAM isn’t always a bad thing (depending on situations, poorly optimized apps can overuse RAM) In other words, when you have sufficient RAM left, your performance = “not throttled” if it’s maxed out, your performance = “throttled”.Īpps use more ram to “maximize” performance, as cached memory gets accessed way faster, and unused memory is wasted. RAM capacity ( not speed) is used for maximizing the performance, not increasing it.

#Editready benchmark imac 5k mac#

the Apple StudioDisplay) to that Mac Studio you are now looking at 3700 at the very least.

And while true that negates that the 27' iMac came with a great 5K display, whereas that 2399 Mac Studio bundle will come with a junk display.

Can I justify getting the 16GB if I won’t be using it that much? But I do have a lot tabs own. Now you might argue, well the previous 27' iMac was also about 2399. Which means I only get to use my Mac on weekends. Usually low greens, sometimes high greens and high yellow. I’ve tried both and I did occasionally see red on the 8GB but there were generally a lot of green and yellow spikes.įor the 16GB, my memory pressure was much better. Now, I’m looking forward to the 2nd gen 24” iMac and I’ve been debating to get 8GB or 16GB. If I have to really honest with myself, if I wasn’t playing games, I would’ve been totally fine with the 2012 MacBook Air, in 2018-2019.

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Started school with a 2012 13” MacBook Air with 8GB at the start of 2013.īy end of 2018, I got the 2018 13” MacBook Pro with 16GB but only because I wanted a eGPU for my games. Hoping to get more than 4 years out of this new MBP or else it’ll be hard for me to justify the price tag. A little headroom will be great for the present and when it gets pressured down the road it’ll be able to handle it with ease. Can’t have a fan ripping in my face in an acoustic treated and calibrated room. I’m tired of hearing fans while doing really nit picky mixing and mastering projects. I canceled my order for the 14” after seeing that heat/fan and battery tests posted. Going 16”, M1 Pro, 32GB and 1TB SSD this time so I don’t have to slam my system. I have to hold my entire live performance on an external SSD for it to be usable. Between the memory swap and lack of storage it really puts pressure on things. Hell, it can’t even keep up with song project files and audio mastering projects in Logic. I get system overload messages constantly and my SSD cannot keep up with large Ableton sessions when I’m performing live.

Really kicking myself for at least not getting more storage. Everyone told me 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD would be enough for me in a 15” MBP a few years ago.