The architects and programmers should hang their heads in shame.RAM is a high-speed memory workspace that the system uses for running programs, loading operating system components, and performing most of its computing tasks. Please, don't defend the garbage handing of inactive memory, if I did that for a client I would be kicked and not get paid.

Anyway 2 questions please :ġ - Is there anyway to configure or turn off inactive memory? I am sick of having 45mb free with 2.5GB inactive and my machine throwing java errors as a result. Until Apple (or someone else gives us all the memory we need (4 slots would be nice and yes I would sacrifice my optical drive for 4 memory slots - no competition)). I learned to program on the good old reliable Apple IIe 🙂 I love my Mac for development (other than its inadequate memory).

My customers are an even mixture of OS X, Linux and Windows and so I need to run lots of VMs to run the various tests. Like many people here I do enterprise software development and have a real need to work in multiple operating system environments. I've got two running right now and out of my 8Gb of RAM I have 0.5Gb free! So 16Gb is really a must for me, and I suspect, others like me. One you get a VM loaded up with Visual Studio and the various server products you need in there you are looking at 2Gb of memory per VM as a workable minimum. Apple have caught up on CPU but the 8Gb RAM limit is now a real contraint for some usage scenarios. Then they started to get left behind as other manufacturers started sticking Quad-Core i7's in their laptops. Plus by using an MBP with VM's I could also dabble in Mac and iOS development.

Granted these are not going to be Apple's biggest market segment but I can assure you there are plenty of them out there being used for Windows development via VM's or Boot Camp - I know plenty, even some guys within Microsoft use MBP's because they make bloody good development machines.Īt the time I bought mine there was nothing on the market that could compete for power, weight, battery life etc.

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