{"id":340,"date":"2017-05-06T22:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-05-06T22:14:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:14:30","slug":"clean-install-mac-sierra-still-eating-enormous-amounts-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Clean install mac Sierra still eating enormous amounts of memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my computer lifetime, I&#8217;ve used Windows 3,NT,95,&#8230; 10, Linux (mostly Gnome from 2002 onwards) and since late 200X Mac. Currently I&#8217;m mostly using Mac because it fits nice between Windows and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>At a certain time I was doing a demo on my Linux laptop and I got a blue screen in front of a client. Pretty much a No No for everybody &#8230; So I decided to switch to Mac and ever since no problems doing demo&#8217;s and presentations.<\/p>\n<p>My Mac is already pretty old (read +3 years). As I&#8217;ve installed a lot on it, I decided to re-install Sierra. Try the good old Windows way, re-install and get a fast machine again. But what happened pretty much blew my mind &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I did a clean install and afterwards checked my laptops memory consumption &#8230; the bare system was still eating 7 Gigs of memory &#8230; Okay I may have 16 in total but why would my core OS without any additional installations need 7 gigs &#8230; This is utter madness and even a complete rip off. This would mean that in order to run a descent Mac Sierra you always need 16 gig to run at a descent speed &#8230; I&#8217;m following Microsoft pretty closely as they are more than ever focusing on good products and helping the opensource community (Did you know Microsoft is the #1 contributor to opensource software ???!!!). Even their Windows 10 is looking like a descent product again &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My current Mac is still doing fine, so I hope to postpone the purchase of a new machine somewhat to a far future &#8230; However if I need to purchase something at the moment, I wouldn&#8217;t know what to buy.<br \/>\nThe new Macs really scare me. The touch bar is something that nobody seems \u00a0to find useful even worse, pretty much everybody I talked to hates it and finds it a waste of money &#8230; for myself I find Microsoft\u00a0did a good job at Windows 10, however the command line interface is still not up to par with the on from Mac or Linux one &#8230; So if I should buy something right now, it would probably be a laptop with an SSD, I7, 16 gig or more diskspace that is\u00a0completely supported on Linux. I would then be installing Linux Mint as that&#8217;s still the distro that seems for myself the most user friendly &#8230;. if you have other suggestions, just let me know !!!<\/p>\n<p>Lets just hope Apple can turn it around, and can make descent desktopsagain that don&#8217;t eat all your memory for no un-necessary reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my computer lifetime, I&#8217;ve used Windows 3,NT,95,&#8230; 10, Linux (mostly Gnome from 2002 onwards) and since late 200X Mac. Currently I&#8217;m mostly using Mac because it fits nice between Windows and Linux. At a certain time I was doing a demo on my Linux laptop and I got a blue screen in front of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clean install mac Sierra still eating enormous amounts of memory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informatics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3U9nk-5u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}