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Re:MacBook Pro by pmontra on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:13PM (#12810229)
The usual culprits are virtual machines, large images, video editing. A little less common: big data, large matrices, scientific computing in general.

I never hit 16 GB on my laptop (I even disabled swap) but I got close once with three browsers open (I segregate some web apps into different browsers), a few VMs, some other random application running. It made me think if it was time to buy the extra 16 GB I can fit into my laptop. I just checked, it's about $100.

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Re:MacBook Pro by josu on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:17PM (#12810803)
I see. So this is also part of the cross-cutting problem everybody is mentioning here of Apple not catering to the pros.
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Re:MacBook Pro by drunkenazi on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:00PM (#12811592)
For sure, I regularly sit between 12-16GB used (mainly doing web development + docker work, large systems, many services), but frequently will be above that when running a lot inside of VMs.

You are also up against a loosing battle of programs using more RAM to do the same job. You get a better experience now, but you can also expect normal PC usage to result in big RAM usage.

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