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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1830456" data-attributes="member: 190607">Many well meaning users will oversell you on the need/advantages of installing more RAM.&nbsp; They do so based on common wisdom that is about a decade out of date.&nbsp; Apple has been using advanced memory compression and very smart memory management since Mavericks, and it's become more advanced with every major new version of the Mac OS released since:<a href="http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/fl/Understanding-Compressed-Memory-in-OS-X.htm" target="_blank">Understanding Compressed Memory on the Mac</a><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/" target="_blank">OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review | Ars Technica</a>Once you get over about 8GB's of RAM, unless you are doing something really RAM intensive, like editing video or doing animation, there will be drastically diminished returns by upgrading to more RAM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1830456, member: 190607"] Many well meaning users will oversell you on the need/advantages of installing more RAM. They do so based on common wisdom that is about a decade out of date. Apple has been using advanced memory compression and very smart memory management since Mavericks, and it's become more advanced with every major new version of the Mac OS released since: [url=http://macs.about.com/od/macoperatingsystems/fl/Understanding-Compressed-Memory-in-OS-X.htm]Understanding Compressed Memory on the Mac[/url] [url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/]OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review | Ars Technica[/url] Once you get over about 8GB's of RAM, unless you are doing something really RAM intensive, like editing video or doing animation, there will be drastically diminished returns by upgrading to more RAM. [/QUOTE]

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