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@mjtsai I think memory on the logic board is fine, but I really do sometimes wish for expansion sockets.

@siegel I thought the logic board was fine in 2012 because I thought 16 GB would be OK for 2–3 years. Wouldn't want to lock that in today.

@mjtsai @siegel interesting. Using lots of VMs? I can see how those can eat up memory easily.

@milend @siegel VMs. Aperture. Apps are just hungry these days. iTunes: 800 MB. CrashPlan: 1 GB. Mail: 800 MB. Tower: 300 MB.

@mjtsai …and even with inactive-memory compression and SSD backing store, it adds up. :-) // @milend

@siegel @milend I didn't even have room in that tweet for Xcode, Safari, and mds. :-) BBEdit still uses barely any RAM, though.

@mjtsai @siegel @milend mds is still usually my top process excluding the kernel. So crazy-making.

@mjtsai "16GB should be enough for anybody"

@siegel @mjtsai have been running 14GB for the past few years, never really had a problem. 16GB for consumers might be more than enough :)

@milend @siegel We're talking about the MacBook *Pro*.

@mjtsai Yeah, I would think a "pro" positioned machine would want more room for growth. // @milend

@mjtsai totally expected to be able to BTO 32GB especially since so many use the rMBP as a desktop as well.