How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals

Re:How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals by mschuster91 on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:10AM (#19604816)

Outlook consumes 1.5GB RAM alone. Then Mattermost and Slack with each 1.5GB, whoops you're at 7.5 GB. Another 2GB for Photoshop, another GB for Cisco Jabber, Excel... then 50 open Chrome tabs and whoops, where has all the RAM gone?

For people working on 64GB+ workstations this is no problem but Apple only supports 32GB in the newest lineup of MBPs.

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Re:How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals by turtlesdown on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:14AM (#19605366)

My currently open Outlook is holding onto 125 MB of RAM. I have at least 12 spreadsheets open in Excel for 112 MB.

IMHO you are wildly overestimating the RAM use of those programs, aside from the others, as they normally run (sure - I can get Excel over a GB running scripts or manipulating a large file).

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Re:How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals by ianhowson on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:57PM (#19608037)

Right now I'm sitting at:

- Slack 1.08GB

- Safari (11 tabs) 4.50GB

- Chrome (5 tabs) 2.17GB

- Outlook 1.13GB

These are ludicrous numbers and, frankly, the only reason why I need 16GB+ machines.

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