macbook pro retina late 2013 ram upgrade

I've run full blown VirtualBox VM's on my desktop computer and I daily run Docker containers on my MBPr besides of Safari with circa 20 tabs, about 5-15 terminal windows, GUI program for version control, Sublime Text for multiple projects, notes application, Skype, Dropbox, F-Secure antivirus and f.lux. But because nowadays we use SSD's, which typically transfer data at 0.5GB/s, going beyond your RAM may not slow down your computer as bad as you'd think. If we'd still use HDD's as our primary storage disks, everything you'd run would get slow fast. Once you run out of RAM, your computer will start storing the data loaded into RAM to your disk. That brings us to the thing which many do not take into account nowadays, which is the page cache on SSD. Should I upgrade, I'd just pick a new CPU instead of RAM boost. I've been happy with my RAM so far and running new games like Dragon Age Inquisition have been fine.

I later overclocked my CPU using the advantage of my higher base clocked RAM (btw, that is about the only reason besides AMD APU stones to buy higher clocked memory) over the 4GB of extra. At the time, I was playing games like Battlefield 3. I have had 8GB of RAM on my desktop PC, but the speed difference was negligible. I'm currently sporting 4GB of RAM on both my desktop PC and on my 13' MBPr. Therefore, I decided to shed some light into using less RAM. I'd say 8GB with an SSD is more than sufficient.Īll the responses here are supporting the RAM upgrade without any technical numbers or comparison to smaller amount of RAM. My iMac at home has 16GB and I never come close to using even half of it no matter what I do. I also don't do photo editing, that's also a different story.

After torture testing a 4GB model at the Apple Store I decided to chance it, and so far it's worked out better than I'd expected. I only got this one because it was available as refurbished, but there wasn't a 8GB model available, so it would've cost me something like an extra $500 to go to a brand new 8GB machine. Do I regret only getting 4GB? Yes, sometimes. It's actually pretty responsive like this, largely a credit to the SSD. You're probably looking at that memory pressure bar graph and are thinking that this computer must be frustrating as hell to use, but to be honest, it isn't. This is what a 13' rMBP with only 4GB of ram looks like doing a lot of heavy tasks (xCode, 3 browsers running, etc).

Macbook pro retina late 2013 ram upgrade