How Much RAM Should You Get in 2024?

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00:00 Memory (RAM) Explained
01:49 What is "Swapping"?
05:25 How Much Memory Do You Need?
05:50 Why Choose 8GB
06:06 Why Choose 16GB
06:20 Why Choose 32GB
06:55 Why Choose 64GB or More
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09:49 Conclusion
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[@JustJoshTech]

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[@imador]

The KZbinr who really values our time... Sometimes i feel sorry for all people who don't know you, you really deserve more followers

[@JustJoshTech]

Thank you so much. Hopefully soon. Yes I do value people's time!

[@fredricksilas8407]

Very very true

[@fredricksilas8407]

@@JustJoshTech Pls do a review on the HP Elitebook 840 G8 or G9

[@aqeeldean686]

​@@JustJoshTechhey Josh need your help. I am going to be studying law probably for the next 4-6/7 years. What laptop is best for me. And I don't care about gaming.

[@harryp3804]

​@@aqeeldean686surface pro 9 😉

[@zkdd23]

I'd find a 32 GB to be future proof, however manufactures providing soldiered RAM laptops are trying hard to prevent that.

[@carldrogo9492]

They followed in Apples footsteps

[@KevinMillard68]

you can custom order some brands of lapptops so you get what you need right away never buy base model systems from stores unless you know for a fact you can upgrade ram and storage your self whcih would be a but cheaper how ever with apple yup storage and ram are solderd but you can pay for the ram becuase well you have no choice but you should pay for 512 gigs min , so you know the drive is fast and will last now you can use an external thunderbolt build it your self drive i built 2 of them and i can use 1tb or even 4tb in each case and they run at 2557 read and write i built them each exactly the same drives and cases and i use 1 as an external boot drive this way i leave my internal alone this way when i sell it it wont have much or any real use on it which will retain some of the computers value more so then a 1.2 or more wron down built in SSD and 32 gig ram is almost the min for basic use 64 gigs min now for gamming..

[@noyota]

Soldered, maybe.

[@Angultra]

Soldered + 1 free slot is a good compromise, a few models are going that route.

[@jj-ju4hp]

Don''t buy macs @@KevinMillard68

[@LouisDuran]

One thing Josh didn't mention is that some iGPUs can steal away system RAM for use by the iGPU. This is usually dynamic and may rarely be taken away when needed for something other than the GPU. However it's usually a BIOs setting And can just be a static amount that is always reserved for the iGPU whether needed or not

[@JustJoshTech]

Excellent comment

[@Beforedeth]

Soooo.... i have a i3 3520 base model 2023 latitude 15 8gb can i throw another stick of same ram into it and should i? i am emulating old games playing lotro and some vallorant. runs great no gpu.

[@Crashed131963]

@@Beforedeth Not only do you want a second stick for more memory but a 2nd stick will turn your memory from Single Channel to Dual Channel. More memory bandwidth .

[@Beforedeth]

Thanks! i got another 8bg in it working great !

[@Klausjp.ontheroadagain]

@@Beforedeth check how many slots you have,you may have two 4GB sticks in yours, so you need to buy 2 8GB sticks

[@jay-5061]

when you flexed your degrees all the comment section warriors packed up their bags and left lmao

[@RemofRenaissance]

:-). So true. Always good when you can drop some credentials. Even myself it worked as reassurance as I’m an 8GB man that for a while started to doubt I got it right! 😅

[@VisionCarrierDreamCatcher]

... and I sat up and started to really pay attention.

[@thatstreaminbdoee.7985]

I laughed way too hard at this 😂

[@carldrogo9492]

😂

[@Tugela60]

Only two? Pathetic. I have four.

[@Brad-cb2dt]

I like explain RAM like it’s physical desk/table space. More ram = larger desk/table. You can always working on more things than the desk/table has space for, but completing multiple activities *can* take more time on a smaller desk/table as you may have to shuffle things on and off as needed (eating dinner before playing a board game Vs eating dinner while playing a board game). Depends on the tasks of course, but playing a board game can take up a lot of space.

[@rikkisan1]

That's actually one of the best explanations I've heard, it's perfect

[@burtdanams4426]

it's also a good analogy because it gets the point across to people that more ram won't necessarily make your process go faster. Having a giant table won't help you eat dinner faster, but you can have more dinner on the table at once.

[@FeTiProductions]

On the SSD memory swapping point for those curious on the impact, I currently have a Windows 11 laptop with 8GB RAM that I bought just under 2 years ago. Due to the insufficiency of the RAM for my needs I have a 12GB page file to remove hiccups and system halts I'd get otherwise. The swapping does make an appreciable blow on drive health but not necessarily a concerning one in my opinion unless you want to keep your hardware for beyond 10 years. I'm currently at 82% lifespan left, 26 TBW / 150 TBW for 23 months of use, and this laptop is mostly office centric for the most part in terms of workload, does homework, multiple chrome tabs, some gaming here and there, 1080p video edits on rare occasions, nothing special. Comparing that to my desktop that has sufficient 16GB of RAM and no page file at all, I have 95% lifespan for over 4 years of usage on that one. Hope that helps with any purchasing decisions

[@JustJoshTech]

Good comment

[@mikem9536]

It matters more on an 8GB M1/2/3's... as the SSD is soldered on and can not be replaced.

[@Frozoken]

Is ur ssd tiny or just really bad. Ive got a 2tb ssd with 23 terabytes written and it's at 99% write life lmao. Regardless with ssd pricing plummeting u can be even more safe by buying a bigger drive as the TBW spec scales linearlly with capacity. ie the same 1tb model with 600tbw would have 1200tbw at 2tb capacity.

[@peterg219]

Just met you today Josh. WOW! This was enlightening with its concise/precise information, eloquently put. "'On'ya mate!" And yeah, I'm sure it works for your mum, but you'd make most Aussies proud. Well done Josh. Cheers from Sydney.

[@ahmedshams8807]

So thoroughly and simply explained. Loved it.

[@saito272]

This is the most helpful guide I've ever seen on this platform, Thanks a lot!

[@rubevaughn]

As someone who has been doing desktop support for close to 30 years I can say that as of 2023 whether PC or Mac it is best for everyone to go with 16g of RAM. Even casual users have a habit of creating very complex situations for their machines and having that added memory really helps in not seeing sluggish behavior. Especially because both the MacOS and Windows are eating up more system memory than ever with all the work they are constantly doing in the background. A very basic scenario I see at work is a user with Outlook running, a web browser running, and Word running will be pushing the limits of what 8g of RAM can manage easily. Now a virus scan kicks in, or an update starts to install in the background and suddenly that 8 g feels very sluggish. Or you ask one of those three apps you have open to suddenly do something more demanding and again you're stressing the level of memory. For a long time 4g was fine, then 8g, now it is 16g.

[@piotrd.4850]

I've been saying this for what, decade? Buy once, cry once. Buy one 16 GB stick even at expense of dual channel to leave space for easy upgrade.

[@kuflik]

Unless you have like 10 corporate security agents on your machine, than you saturate 16gb with teams and outlook.. I'm just bumping my laptop to 48gb.

[@edgargabriel6640]

32 sind besser und billig

[@jacobjohnson4763]

I think you mean, at least 16gb

[@edgargabriel6640]

@@jacobjohnson4763 right, I upgraded all my machines to 32 or some to 64 already

[@themoonandstars8868]

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

[@cenewton3221]

My Mac Pro from 2010 has had 128GB since I bought it on eBay in 2017. Twin Xeon X5690's, 24 threads (3.5GHz), nVidia RTX 2080, modern I/O, NVME SSD and internal RAID5, so she still rips pretty well. I plan on keeping her for a while longer too. Running Garuda Linux as primary OS. I haven't considered a new PC since, won't for a while either.

[@sam_gies]

thank you for explaining that topic!

[@PS-vt5wn]

Very good commentary and explanation. Value for time :) awaiting the same info about CPU cores.

[@penelopemaynard9016]

thank you very much! and God bless your mother, that was such a lovely sign-off off :) loved, liked, and subbed.

[@mediocreape]

i actually learned something new today, i didn't know you could look at the paging graph on windows. thanks for the tip. subbed

[@jjwagnell]

As always, a thorough and detailed explanation of RAM. My conclusions are not always the same as yours due to personal preference but I always appreciate you going into detail and sharing exactly why you made the conclusion you have come to. Thank you!

[@firasrabaia]

100% Same here😂 Really appreciate his work and detailing but a lot of times we reach different conclusions.

[@m.r.a.2460]

I had watched several videos but none help like this...tnx indeed🌷

[@nickchristopoulos9613]

good presentation Josh, and very carefully delivered. Many thanks for your efforts. Regards N.C.

[@stevereason6931]

This video was very informative, THANK YOU!!

[@raygrosvenor7369]

I find that if you need to use Excel and use multiple vLookups and cross reference different sheets, etc., then 16GB may not be enough at times if you are dealing with large data sets.

[@falkenvir]

Is this for real?

[@HonestoMercado]

No

[@jeandutoit1413]

​@@falkenvirYes, it is real. But we're talking about large datasets. Something like the sales data for a large corporation for the past calendar year, for example, and cross joining it with shipping data.

[@heyemji]

I don't think you or your company should still be using Excel for *that large* data set you're talking about. Sometimes it's not the RAM but the program isn't just as powerful as those that are designed to handle that.

[@mdd1963]

Back in Feb 2017, I ordered 32 GB for my 7700K-based rig 'just because', which although unnecessary at the time, will help the rig transition to TrueNAS or ProxMox duties.; next time I build a replacement, I will likely get 64 GB for the same reason! :)

[@HumanBeingSpawn]

Good choice. I also feel like browsers steal your RAM on purpose. One thing about Linux is that you can set RAM hard limit for each process

[@mikem9536]

@@HumanBeingSpawnRAM is cheap bro, I just added 32GB's to my 16GB's system. Unless you buy a Crapple.

[@MrJloa]

Wise decision. In 2019 i made a 16 gb ram setup, just threw it in the window last week. 32 is the bare minimum if u wanna sleep well😂

[@misssheltered1081]

Good video. Im considering upgradeing my ram in my laptop for music production since it workss but struggles when working on projects with lots of plugins. I'll 1st cheek the puformance monter thingy.

[@miniDrew4]

Great video. I thought I understood RAM... they you showed me up! By the way, would love to see a review of the Lenovo Legion Slim 7i considering you loved last year's model.

[@franciscobarrientos3922]

awesome!!! thanks a lot!!! I work in process automation, including machine vision, integrating but not developing; but I didn't study IT nor electronics, this was big help! ( I must confess I was still using the taskmgr to check performance)

[@tymepilot8471]

I just subscribed to your channel just because of this video Thank you I’m glad your channel here Your channel helps keep information balanced

[@ddp2049]

Awesome video thank you for the input

[@salih-khan]

Great video really went into detail about the use cases and helped me a lot!

[@Gregoriosplace]

Great job as always.

[@henriquemiguel95]

I always max out the ram. On my older Nitro 5 I had 32GB of ram (2x16gb), on my current Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 I have 48GB (16GB soldered and a stick of 32GB).

[@swaroopvaidya]

tysm. u have cleared my confusion. really helpful video👍👍👍

[@luisortega8085]

Nice video, I run linux, and after reading and testing a lot I came up with some tweaks to improve memory usage on linux. Zswap/Zram are pretty magical, Zswap is better though. I can use a lot of memory thanks to that. 12GB of ram + 18GB swap file (that is barely touched but lets me have a lot of compressed memory!)

[@zoeyaaahmed203]

Same here. I usually have to change a weird config file in fedora to get the zram to be bigger. I wish there was a way to change it graphically like in windows :[. at least linux doesnt guzzle up 5GBs on idle comapred to 1.6G on fedora

[@muhdmairaj8778]

​@@zoeyaaahmed203how do you change it in windows?

[@1UniversePrincess]

Well that was basically always the question I ended up asking myself the whole time I was hopping around looking at gaming laptops. I had no clue about it, all I knew was that my last Laptop that melted down always said the memory was running at 100% a lot of the time when I was trying to game or even just do basic stuff on the computer. Now that wasn’t a gaming laptop but I didn’t want to immediately have a repeat of that situation by choosing the wrong amount of memory, so this video really helped inform me! I’m a freshman in college and having spent days looking at laptops, finally finding one that I really liked that was also reasonably priced with the help of my sister, and it having soooo many customization options I was worried what features would be worth it to tag on more money for as this is my first gaming laptop ever. Thanks so much for your help in the this process!

[@JustJoshTech]

I'm glad it helped! Thats whats keeps us going here

[@levibull6063]

Ahhh a good few 4 maybe 6 even years ago I had a 4gb ram laptop Playing unturned and having Skype up will heat that thing so much you'd think the bottom of the laptop was on fire

[@TheOkever]

Great video as always!! I am considering getting a MacBook M1 or M2 for work. I mainly use Excel, Google's online Suite (Sheets...), Python coding and Tableau. I was considering getting the base model with 8GB of RAM. Would you recommend it or should I bump it to the 16GB model?

[@nulla9601]

I can get a good deal for the Legion slim 5 14 (soldered memory) but it's 16GB. If I want 32GB I need to "build" my own and that would be €230 more for just the increased memory. I'm a bit conflicted because I really would like the 32GB but €230 for just 16GB more RAM is just hard to justify

[@timyuckenberg5794]

One of the few reviews that did a good job explaining memory requirements. After 42 years of IT experience, I always said more memory is better UP TO A POINT. His explanation of how a machine uses memory was dead.

[@brachiator1]

Excellent explanation. Thanks

[@JustJoshTech]

Thanks for the nice message

[@907nvl]

Excellent video. THANK YOU 👍

[@ronsim6896]

Hi, do you think the Dell Inspiron 15 i5-1335u, 16gb of ram is a good machine? I am concerned with the low cache speeds vs benchmarks, thanks.

[@kamalaksh.shenoy]

Hi Josh, I seek ur advise. I am planning to buy a MacBook but I have been Windows user for last 15 years. My usage is more and of only business usage - browsers (10 tabs at a time), email clients, PDFs & Office apps (excel, powerpoint, Word), watch vides (KZbin on browser), NetFlix, music player (VLC), view photos & videos which I shot using a phone, video conferencing (zoom or similar application), Spotify, ... etc which similar in nature. But in combination and not just single task or application. But may be in future want to do "very basic" photo and video editing. IMportantly I want to use my new MacBook for at least 5 years, because all my Windows laptops (DELL) have lasted at least 6-7 years without problems but with just one upgrades of RAM (ONLY) once in the life of that laptop. Do you suggest that I stick to 16GB & 1TB on MacBook Pro with M3? Or do I choose 24GB RAM? Because I have seen that (even for basic users like myself) OS (after updates & upgrades) and applications or programs over a period of time gets computational intensive and memory intensive. Also needing fans as I do not trust Apple with passive cooling (so Pro model). WIth WIndows laptop, I am very clear that 32 GB RAM is needed as Windows memory management is not good and over period of time (in 3 years), its a pain to use Windows with less memory. Your suggestion/advise will be helpful but I do not hold u on it.

[@MnemonicCarrier]

Don't forget that laptops without discrete GPUs also use a part of your RAM (on my AMD 6800H laptop, it uses 4GB of my RAM). 😄

[@JustJoshTech]

Excellent note

[@andrewdhome]

'Caysh' - now there's a pronunciation I've not heard before! But I don't have 2 computer science degrees 😂 Great vid!

[@russellbaker4256]

I run a Windows VM for my desktop with PCIe gen3 NVMe storage, it's gone from 8 -> 16 -> 20Gb RAM over the last 5 years. I do run around 300 processes and I can get away with 16 as long as I leave it for 10 mins after startup to allow it to _settle down_

[@ultimateonefa9386]

Just Josh, would you be able to do a video where you compare the Lenovo Slim Pro 9i vs Zenbook 14x, please and thank you!

[@WoleGqu]

there are some interesting laptops that are not sold in the US. will u be interested in checking them out? like for example the Panasonic FV series sold in Japan

[@dancingbetweenus]

Thank you Josh! I just watched a few of your mac videos all together. I have a 2018 15" macbook pro and would like an upgrade since I'm doing more 3D work (Cinema4D & Redshift), would be amazing to hear your thoughts about the 16" Macbook M3Max on their performance if you have knowledge on that. Thanks again. :)

[@ontheroadagainwithvinny931]

Thanks, a great explanation.

[@bengoey]

I would like to know how much difference is the cost between 8Gb and 16Gb memory to a manufacturer to buy wholesale. It is ridiculous that they are still producing some low end computers with 4Gb memory when the cost difference is so little

[@harryniedecken5321]

The big problem is that it isn't possible to upgrade the ram on most laptops anymore after mfg like we used to do.

[@shirothefish9688]

Paying anything more than 100 bucks for 8gb of ram in a prebuilt should be an illegal upcharge at this point where you can get even ddr5 16gb for 70 or less.

[@Klausjp.ontheroadagain]

@@harryniedecken5321 like Apple or HP

[@harryp3804]

Loved the video but it dint ans the Q i was looking for (no video out there does) if for example i have a 11th gen i5 with 16gb vs 13th i7 with 8gb , which system will perform better for the medium video editing and light gaming use cases ?

[@GailOehler]

Very good commentary and explanation. Value for time :)

[@TheFFsage]

The Yoga Pro 7 I will be buying soon has only 16gb of ram and it's a bummer as it can't be upgraded. I will probably do fine with just 16gb but would have loved to get 32gb for future proof, and sadly they don't sell a 32gb variant anywhere here

[@Vensa_]

do you consider other brand? acer swifts lines perhaps?

[@MaxPhotoGraphic]

Thank you for this content, I am seing around a brand that I didn't know exist "Captiva" may you tell me some about it is it like MSI was 5 years ago? thanks :)

[@sevdarasdaras]

Josh getting straight to the point, no screaming, no fancy intros for 1 minute, no begging for following every 5 minutes. Thank you.

[@brucewayne2955]

I love that he recommended a different KZbinr's video because it had good information in there. Thanks!

[@MrJloa]

32 gb. Period. Trust me, I'm struggling with 16.

[@Agent-ie3uv]

A common sense tip: don't open 42 chrome tabs while playing microsoft flight simulator WHILE rendering 4k video. 16 is more than enough 🙄

[@MrJloa]

​​​@@Agent-ie3uv haha, u wish so. Probably u dont know what nodejs is 😂 Its solo eats 10gb ram while compiling large projects. Also firefox/chrome might occasionally eat 3gb ram per tab eeeeesily. Power is never enough. Any. Just like u buy a car - extra horse power is always good 👍

[@truvc]

@@Agent-ie3uvI can’t even render 4k video reliably with 16. New pc has 128

[@dnegel9546]

@@MrJloado i still need 16gb if all im going to do is check emails, browse internet and watch netflix?

[@lucianoschnorr9651]

​@@dnegel9546if you are going to do Just that even 8gb would be okay

[@BenjaminRodriguezReyes]

This is probably the best video I've seen on this topic

[@JustJoshTech]

Thanks Ben, I appreciate that. Please share if you can. Video could do with some love!

[@jpcoll2011]

I went from 32 gb to 64 gb. Didn't notice the difference and it made my bios try to reduce the speed settings even though xmp was used. I learnt that going from two slots to four was trouble 😕😕

[@marianmarkovic5881]

On PC I have 64 (2X32GB) working great, having 2 slots left if nessesry,.. Recently I Bought Cheap Laptop (250€ Just to get by on travels and vacation) whit 8GB, and for browsing it works just fine, If I feal it is limited, I will go to 32 whit no wories, RAM stics are werry cheap, I realy dont get why manufacturers have so big price difference between 8 16 32 GB models.

[@basicuser54]

This is a good point, many cheaper motherboards run 4 channel configs slower than dual channel.

[@mohammedrizan3734]

What is the best lap for cording,web development?

[@AA-flyguy]

EXCELLENT!!! 👌

[@jamestrump2729]

Hi Josh, not expecting you to reply but it would be really helpful if you did. I'm from the UK and I'm looking to buy a laptop for under £700 however in the UK we have heavy VAT on electronics so everything is a lot more expensive than the US and also a lot of the Laptops have different models in Europe than in North America so I can't get any of the laptops you recommend such as the Asus Zenbook 14X because it comes standard with i9 13th gen and is over £1200. I'm looking into a refurbished M1 Macbook Air from 2020 for about £630 pounds for 256GB and £770 for 512GB. However I am concerned if it will be powerful enough and will last long enough. I have a gaming windows desktop at home with 16GB of ram and AMD Ryzen 5 3600 which can run games fine and I've never felt it slowing down. I will be using the Mac for school work while I'm not at home in UK's equivalent of 11th and 12th Grade doing the equivalent of AP Computer Science and also working on an online business when not at home. What do you suggest?

[@indiekiduk]

you could demo the memory pressure graph in activity monitor on a mac, that is a good way to know if more is needed

[@bryans8656]

I replied to your first version of this but I wanted to thank you again for this video. If for no other reason than to help your algorithms. 🙂

[@JustJoshTech]

Thank you so much Bryan, it really does help alot

[@sebkeccu4546]

A good trick to accelerate the ram swapping is by putting in a second ssd, and assign the swap file exclusively to that second drive.

[@bristolview56]

Have just bought a new motherboard/processor for our desktop as currently not compatible with Windows 11, was planning to get 16Gb of RAM but it was only an extra £20 or so to get 32Gb so a bit of a no-brainer, although I don't need it now it could extend the life of the PC by several years.

[@JOEQNICHOLSON]

Josh please do a review of the legion slim 5!!

[@jpdrummer86]

Best damn video covering this topic by far, and it’s not even close!! I’ve been fighting myself on which one to get for video editing M3 pro vs M3 Max, and thoughts of future proof. He just answered all my questions and concerns in one short video, I’m truly impressed! Great job Josh

[@JustJoshTech]

Thanks mate. I have a video on the M3 laptops coming out Friday or Saturday. I'd suggest waiting for that one. It may help

[@dawndonaldson7734]

best laptops for visually impaired? for myself i like the macbook pro but it gets too hot. intel chip. 2018. solution is i have 3x 4K monitors attached so it functions like a desktop. but i need one mobile while returning to school. suggestions?

[@alideep9656]

Impressive technique you have ❤

[@odebroqueville]

Good video. Do I understand correctly that memory swapping takes place between the RAM and SSD? What is keeping the cache memory so small?

[@MrSango123]

great vid josh

[@omar.sheikh91]

I use my laptop for multiple stock trading platforms, how much RAM would you recommend?

[@BLAISEDAHL96]

I have an M2 Max, with the unified memory the 64gb option seemed well positioned for future proofing. If you watch any of the tech KZbinrs updating Mac’s released 10 years ago, one of the most common moves is to upgrade the ram to as high as the system was designed for, generally doubling from 8 to 16gb. The big question is: what will be the average amount of RAM be on laptops a decade from now? Or will some other device take its place?

[@moviesynopsis001]

So happy I have found a reviewer I feel I can trust thanks Josh

[@livniemann]

I am an interior architecture student wanting to purchase a new laptop that I plan to keept for at least 5 years. I frequently use CAD programs and do some rendering. What do you think? Is 16 GB enough?

[@TheRetroEngine]

Good point to raise about looking at performance monitor rather than memory usage.

[@shanejohns7901]

I built a Threadripper 3960X system with 24 cores, 48 threads, a little over a year ago. MOBO (ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha) has 8 RAM slots on the mobo, each can take up to a 32 GB DIMM. But unfortunately, the AIO cooler I bought for it kind of blocks two of the 8 slots (nearest slot on each side of the cpu). So I have 6 slots * 32 GB = 192 GB of RAM. And quite frankly, I love it. Most modern OSes will utilize all of that RAM as disk cache unless and until it needs to release some for application usage. So basically, after bootup, your drives will only need to read a hard drive block once until next reboot, unless RAM gets low, or you are doing something on the machine that necessitates reading MORE than 192 GB of drive data between reboots. Subsequent reads of that same block will come straight from RAM, rather than asking the HD for it. If/when memory fills with disk cache, most OSes will keep track of which blocks of data are more in demand, and will flush the drive data of blocks that are less frequently requested. Long story short, your drives will last much MUCH longer with lots of free RAM. But as soon as you reboot the machine, it has to start back over caching everything again. So it's best to avoid unnecessary reboots.

[@sixgunfilms]

who care

[@Whatthebug]

Hey Josh. Would you make videos about best budget laptops during Black Fridays or other sales? (In the future around Nov, Dec)

[@JustJoshTech]

Next video has some. And yes

[@salaubiola9746]

​@@JustJoshTechplease when is the next video should be expected?

[@JustJoshTech]

@@salaubiola9746 likely Monday latest Tuesday

[@tammyvaughn773]

How much do you need to run parallels on MacBook Pro m1. Running windows 11

[@jammies701]

Nice vid mate

[@DanRizzuto]

Question... I always have FCPX open, along with photoshop, as well as Webflow.... my workflow requires all to be open. Obviously depending on the type of video im editing... would you recommend 48 or 64GB of storage? I've been 'ok'with 32 but at time the system stalls... this may also be due to full SSD when rendering video. Many thanks!

[@lisab3396]

Thanks, that was very good for a novice like me. 👍👍 My question at the moment is......... Should I Defrag my Ram and if so, how often?

[@SalmanAli-bp2tv]

Very well described, sincere advisor

[@williamcurwen7428]

I have my workstation fitted with 64gb RAM and use 32gb of that memory as a dedicated Photoshop RAM scratch disk. Works very well for my purposes. Sometimes I use smaller RAM disks for open/save batch processing of files. When everything is operating purely within RAM, it becomes very fast and is very stable. This is my reasoning, although entirely willing to be proved wrong.

[@Frozoken]

Ur right, the access latency of an ssd is just way too large to be used a lot with higher performance applications. When ur cpu updates about every 0.2 nano seconds, having to wait 100 microseconds for data from the ssd is a lot of wasted cpu clock cycles. We're talking a 500,000x difference here lmao. Ram on the otherhand is about 100 nanoseconds.

[@bobbobson6290]

I have several devices with different amount of RAM and a laptop should have at least 32 Gigabyte of RAM in my opinion. I always have a lot of browser tabs open at the same time (hundreds) and several programming environments and with 32 GB RAM it gets really slow after around a week. Then I have to restart my working laptop. My stationary PC also has 32 Gigs of RAM but it never slows down because it gets restarted every day at least twice. Now I ordered a laptop with 64 GB RAM. I'm curious when I have to restart that thing before it's not bearable anymore.

[@PerpetualPreponderer]

Does this apply equally to windows and m-series mac machines? Does RAM go further on the m-series macs due to the unified memory thingy they've got going on?

[@Tigerex966]

No ram is ram on base non GPU models both the GPU and CPU share that ram if it is too low the go to the SSD for fake slower ram imitation and wear it out sooner. Their operating systems handle it totally different as does the hardware to a degree but still 8 gb is 8 gb in either and if you run out or to goes to the speedy SSD. .that SSD needs to be fast enough and big enough to help out in 8 gb machines. PC base machines usually now have faster ssds then. Base Mavs which are super slow unless you upgrade. Soacs don't magically use less memory. But they do appear to use it more efficiently because data has less places to go to be executed however in the base slow 256 models that SSD is the bottle neck with m1 machines being faster then. M2 machines on things that require a lot of SSD time.

[@yezylol1089]

im starting a computer science degree, so I think 16gb should be fine beginning but to find a laptop upgradeable to 32 gb for when I need to upgrade it with intensive tasks

[@fredbecker607]

You might want to checkout the framework laptops.

[@floycewhite6991]

Or get one with a single 16 GB stick, soldered or not. The empty slot can be filled later.

[@drkmagneto]

Cool video!! Thanks!

[@carstencroessmann]

Hi Josh, first of all Greetings from Germany, I already saw your M3 Misled Video. I need your advice please. I bought a couple of days ago a MBP 16" M2 Max 12C/38C-GPU with 32gb RAM and 1TB SSD. I am not and will not be a Pro User, I just came back to because I do my private video editing and was interesteing the new apple silicon CPU's. The Software I will maybe use is Davinci Resolve. I have a couple days left to return the MBP if I want, I bought it from a certified Shop not from apple, and after getting the VAT back from the revenue, because I bought it over our company I paid 2.770€. What do you think should I stay with the M2 Max or should I switch to M2 Pro the bandwith is slightly faster ont he Max. Another scenario could be M2 Pro with 32 or 64 GB RAM and just 512GB or 1TB SSD, I will hook up anyways a Samsung M.2 SSD 990Pro. But I thought I'll keep the MBP for the next let's say 8 to 10 years, and the software will getting faster and more CPU and RAM is needed in the future and who know's what else is coming up in the future. So I thought I'm well prepared, so what do you think? Thanks in advance Carsten

[@user-hi9yx2ns1l]

Hi one question, while I can't do it with the Win VM swap, I moved my Brower cache and Adobe Program stretch to an old SD card, which will last 3-12 months under the abuse. My question is, is this a good way to protect my SSD?

[@JeanLouisBourdon]

2 questions: power consumption & boot time self check is there a negative return past a certain point?

[@Yowzoe]

❓Rookie question: Is there a way to suspend tabs on Safari on a Mac as there is on Chrome on a Chromebook (an extension or Chrome itself)? I bought an 8/256 M2 MacBook. I'll be a light user for sure, but now I wish I got 16/256, because I'm worried that having several programs open plus many many tabs will cause hiccups and slowdowns. Any knowledgeable advice would be appreciated on this question as well as how to maximize my existing RAM.

[@N1klas13]

I was hoping for more detail on any differences (if any) for different os like Linux or windows vs macOS. But omg thank you for explaining to people that they should check swapping and memory pressure over allocation, I’m sooo tired of people looking at allocation and getting things wrong.

[@dannydiscovers]

Such a solid video. I need to upgrade to 32gb as a professional. Rendering videos on 8gb is so slow

[@svinatraktore]

Rendering is mostly about GPU power.

[@ahkong501]

love these geeky stuff!!

[@JustJoshTech]

Me too!

[@daveg4417]

18 months ago I built my AMD R9-5950X system with 128GB DDR4 and an RTX-3080. I thought 128GB would be enough. This summer I built an Intel Xeon W7 workstation with 512GB of DDR5 memory and an RTX-3090. Now I'm closer to what I need. I do Unreal Engine 5 video game design and I also work with large terrains with the software I develop called TerreSculptor.

[@jiauyjiauy3777]

Yoooo, 512 gigs is wild I recently got a 64gb kit and thought it would be enough for years to come

[@levibull6063]

At first I thought this was overkill But if your trying stuff on unreal 5 fair enough .... got to ask for curiosity (and If you don't know, not sure or don't have a opinion no harm done) I'm curious for the future of raytracing cause I haven't noticed much when I've used it And sometimes it doesn't make a difference in graphics

[@daveg4417]

@@levibull6063- I use Unreal Engine 5 and TerreSculptor 3 to create massive open worlds that are 260km x 260km and larger. This simply cannot be done efficiently with less memory. I do large terrain work for various clients in the media industry. TerreSculptor 3 supports creating terrains up to 1 billion x 1 billion meters, which requires 18 exabytes of memory. With UE5 and only 128GB of RAM I was always getting out of memory crashes. Personally, I think that AMD and NVidia will probably improve their raytracing capabilities in their GPUs. And as computers get more powerful, we will get raytracing with more bounces etc, and the real-time quality will just go up. Things like reflections and such will be affected the most. In 5 years we will probably look back at the video quality now and see a big difference.

[@jeandutoit1413]

One good reason for upgrading to 64GB RAM is when you want to play BATTLETECH with the RogueTech mod pack. Base game has always had a memory leak, and unless you want to restart every 30 minutes or so, you need RAM to soak up the bloat.

[@benhuff9592]

I’m having a hard time deciding between the M3 Max 14/30 Core with 96GB ram VS. the 16/40 with 64GB, please advise.

[@Ceeewolf]

I have 64GB on an X299 PC and sometimes I get insufficient mem blockages. That never happened on my old 128 GB X99 machine. If you are still using DDR4, the cost has fallen so low that you should just fill all your mem slots with =>16GB sticks.

[@Bjowolf2]

Josh explaining the RAMifications of your decisions 😉

[@arsalanafroz]

Take my like and get out of here