"8GB base model in 2023 for normal browsing with Firefox is completely enough" - random youtuber
Unified memory is God King. Lots of masturbatory behind the scene for those tech enthusiasts.
Deemo,
AwesomeSteve, Man…, at least you are running miscellaneous apps, I just use Firefox and had to close a few tabs to get back to green bar on memory pressure…
Deemo, In my case it’s only had it happen to me 3 times over the course of 1-2 years. It wasn’t consistent in running wild.
bamboo, This is due to shared memory being counted for every process sharing it though, I think. If 20 processes share 1GB of memory, that is only 1 GB of memory, but macOS might report it as 20GB.
HollandJim, Maybe that works on a M1/M2-series processor, where the ultrawide bus means all ram works as fast as typical memory, but I wouldn’t want to even consider this on Intel.
alcasa, 8 GB and constantly swapping. Firefox is the new emacs
Bootheal0179, I finally increased the Ram to 8Gb on my in laws 2009 iMac core 2duo, it’s pretty snappy again.
slmcrs, if you have ram available, it should be used. otherwise it’s wasted
Byereddithellolemmy, Firemin
lossykittens, Are you sleeping your unused tabs? That appears to be the issue here, no?
RandomlyRight, You can do that in Firefox?
fluffy, What’s “normal” browsing varies wildly between people.
FoxBJK, 
Posts like these never include any details that we can draw meaningful conclusions from.
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