So far I haven't had to change the resolution to deal with any scaling issues, but some things get pretty tiny (but still clear). I use IE11 primarily and occasionally Opera and have never had any memory issues from my browsers. I got the i5 since I didn't think the i7 was enough of a performance jump to justify the price, but I wouldn't dream of getting less than 8gb of RAM these days. I have an 8gb Yoga 2 Pro (in orange) and it's awesome. UPDATE: A commenter below says my results are flawed as I'm not taking into consideration how shared memory works. 4gigs just isn't reasonable no matter what browser you're running. Measure for yourself.įor me, I need more RAM. Your system, your sites, your browser builds, and your video card will change these results. They were/are the ones I have on my machine and the ones I use. It may be that these browser builds aren't all optimize for memory usage.

If I run a small PowerShell script to collect the chrome.exe's and sum their physical memory use: $m = ps chrome | measure PM -Sum ('Chrome MB ' -f ($m.sum / 1mb))

Regular 'pages' (things that aren't heavy JS users) like Troy's blog or ArsTechnical use maybe 10megs. Some tabs that are 'apps' like Gmail and Outlook use a 100megs or more. Here's my task manager showing the Chrome 'Canary' processes:Īnd here's the internal Chrome task manager (which is great!) showing what's really happening:Ĭertainly the memory used by my growing collection of Chrome extensions adds up. (work email), Gmail (home email),, ,, ,.I (this just happened to be) had these tabs open: I have IE, Chrome, and Firefox pinned in my Taskbar and usually work in Chrome. I usually have Visual Studio open, a browser, and a few other apps. I'm testing a 4GB Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 this week and I'm finding I'm running right up against the 4 gigs of RAM in my daily work.

Firefox takes up too much cpu