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With less than 32GB you would have to manually exit apps to conserve ram or live with ram/ssd memory swap. With a lot of Safari tabs open, multiple YouTube/Twitch tabs opened, many different apps open but minimised not fully shutdown I've seen my ram usage go up to 70-75% utilisation.īitdefender is roughly 130MB of ram, Malwarebytes is 25MB ram as well as Lulu Firewall. Get an estimation of your current device here. We recycle all kinds of tech, no matter how old, how big or where you bought it. Trade in and get new tech You must be 18 or older, and be the legal owner of the device youre trading inyou may be asked to present a valid form of photo. Now is the perfect time to trade-in any of your old devices to an Apple product. So far with 32GB ram I have zero swap used. Check our trade-in estimator below to see what your item is worth, then trade it in for a Best Buy Gift Card you can use to upgrade to the latest tech.

I also have a few Apple apps running in the background, I checked Activity Monitor utility - Maps, Messages and Apple Music take up a few hundred MB's just being opened in the background. I have these apps running in the background - Noir (website dark mode on Safari), Shottr (screenshot app), Wipr (adblocker), Adguard (ad/malware blocker), Bitdefender for Mac (antivirus), Malwarebytes Premium (anti malware), Lulu Firewall, TG Pro (temperature monitoring), Stats (GPU, CPU, Ram monitoring). I have a M2 Pro Mac mini with 32GB ram, with a few Safari tabs open including Youtube and background apps, I'm already using 11.5GB to 15GB of ram.
