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Old 06-15-2013, 01:55 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough View Post
The ultra-fast PCIe SSD in the new Airs will go a long way towards mitigating the effect of swapping slowdowns, so you're probably fine with 4GB for now.
As will memory compression in 10.9 - VMware did a bunch of benchmarking of memory compression, which they implement on their ESXi hypervisors, and in memory contention scenarios, it reduces the need for swapping by up to 85%.

This and a few other under-the-hood features are going to be superb for the Macbook Air line of machines (and the Pro's of course, but the Air in particular is going to love this)
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