07-13-2014, 10:38 PM
Black wrote:
Maverick's memory management is improved such that you will probably never need more than 8 if you've been getting by on that.
My 2012 Mini is getting by fine on 4.
Keep in mind that this came from someone who enjoys booting off of USB 2.0 vs the internal SATA bus and thinks that it's magically faster that way.
Memory compression in Mavericks will slow an old Mac to a crawl if it's the slightest bit short on RAM. The 2012s and later seem to cope with it much better, but a 2010 will start feeling its age in a hurry if you don't have 8GB of RAM or more.