If your MacBook is a few years old, it might have just 4GB of RAM. Base specification MacBooks are still quite well specified, but running huge apps while having several other windows open at the same time can be a problem.Īll MacBooks now come with 8GB of memory as standard, but it wasn’t always so.
Bear in mind that macOS will take a large portion of this and so there isn’t a lot of space left for your software.īig apps require lots of memory and processing power too. Some of the MacBooks currently available from Apple have disks that are just 128GB. Just how big are these apps getting? Very big! If you have a low end Mac with a small disk, here are lightweight alternatives. Apple’s office suite - Pages, Numbers and Keynote - are huge apps that are getting bigger with each update.