

I mean people were using 8 Gs not long ago and up to 16 as a bit more and now MAC is using about 8 gs of RAM for me almost instantly. I also wonder if more OS updates will just take up more RAM. So Id like to not be in a spot where I start worrying too much about taxing it in the near future, once I start writing I dont want to start freezing tracks and bouncing them and all that, id rather work much more freely, mute some tracks, rewrite, compare ETC, all within the same project. Im considering some Kontakt strings and maybe different synth plugins aswell, maybe ik multimedia plugins. Which I personally wouldn't Do, however I would break up instruments into different tracks, plugins, automation, slate drums, some bass synth here or there ETC so it would still add up in tracks. Iv seen some producers go with 64 g of RAM recently to do about 60-90 tracks with VSTs. I wouldn't get another 16g of RAM again seeing how much Mac OS and random cache files take up RAM. Ram outside of logic kinda hovers around 8-10 gigs and once it gets to 10.5 gigs my laptop starts acting odd. Iv checked my cpu meter in logic and with just one core going up to 25 percent in one recent outing there are some playback issues. Also, bear in mind you'll be able to add as much storage as you want, you won't be able to add anymore ram. If you're going for a higher tier mac you want to last for a long time you may as well get 32/64gb though, as I believe it's hard soldered in to the sockets now.ġ6gb is fast approaching a fair minimum for a lot of specialised uses, music, games, 2d art. Your OS and running apps will use the ram it needs and the rest will just sit there. 32 may not get maxed out or near maxed out, but maybe the extra RAM is simply more horsepower in a sense at all times?It doesn't work like that. But I consider maybe 64 just handles a load faster than what a 32 could do. I wonder, does having more ram ease the weight being tossed around? For example if an overall use of RAM lets say is 12 gigs, sure 32 and 64 gigs of RAM can handle that load, but will 64 handle that very same load more efficiently? Im considering a m16 MacBook Pro with either 32g of RAM and 2 tb of storage or 64 RAM and 1 tb of storage.
