How much memory does a Macbook Air need?

int03e2013-01-26 14:58:35

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int03e, 2013-01-26 14:58:35

Hey! There is now an opportunity to take an MBA 13 "with 4 gigabytes of memory at a good price, unfortunately, there is no model with 8 gigabytes. Who has such a device, please tell me if it is comfortable for him with so much RAM? It will be used for programming. Sublime text in as an editor, rails, mysql/postgresql, at times uploading quite large dumps.

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Jonh Doe, 2013-01-26
@int03e

More than enough. Now I'm sitting like this 90% of the time. Sometimes it even seems to be faster than an 11 year old iMac with 16 gigs.

Vlad Zhivotnev, 2013-01-26
@inkvizitor68sl

4 GB at the moment is a living wage, taking into account the prospects.
Enough, but more is better.

amureki, 2013-01-26
@amureki

MBA 13" 2011 + 24" monitor. I'm doing projects in Sublime Text 2 python + django, there's nothing to have memory at all.
There was a case, I wrote a coursework on a bunch of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 on this laptop. That is, it ran a Windows Server 2008 virtual machine, a Windows 7 virtual machine, and in parallel the coursework on OS X. Nothing slowed down.
I also ran debian in a virtual machine, but it needed little memory, there were no problems there either.

kuzemchik, 2013-01-26
@kuzemchik

Sublime + safari/chrome/firefox + postgres. Enough, but with a stretch. There will be Outlook, it will start to end. Photoshop will work, but the system will be in swap at this time. The mountain lion is rather gluttonous on the subject of memory. Parallels will eat at least 2 (no matter how much you give it). I would still suggest taking it from the 8th. The machine is still expensive, it will be a shame if it is uncomfortable to work with.

Vadim, 2013-01-26
@McDoe254

Who has such a device, tell me please, is it comfortable for him with so much RAM?

More than. However, do not forget about the fly in the ointment in the form of the impossibility of its subsequent increase.

r3s3t, 2013-01-26
@r3s3t

I'm working on an 11" Air (i7 with 4GB RAM) connected to an external monitor in Photoshop with hundreds of megabytes of files. Haven't noticed any slowdowns yet. I am sure that as a machine for a developer, 4 GB will be more than enough, even if you connect 2 external monitors.

Evgeny Yablokov, 2013-01-26
@Gular

How are you using the browser? So, keep a lot of open tabs? I don't have an MBA myself. There is MBP Mid2010 4GB - there were times when there was not enough memory. Although now I do not always work for him, mostly for iMac. A little can be just the same because of the browser, as an option. I have noticed more than once that Google Chrome "takes" 2-3 GB.

Barmunk, 2013-01-26
@Barmunk

I have exactly the same. It seems normal for the work that you described, but nothing more. And personally I have a strange bug. jQuery is very slow in any browser. Sliders hang browsers at a time.

Jonh Doe, 2013-01-29
@CodeByZen

Yesterday I put FCPX on 13 air 12 with a minialka from memory. With one non-HD track and one shape. The temperature of the processor went over 100 and the memory was not particularly gobbled up. So it depends what you use it for. Not all "tasks" are equally useful.