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I benchmarked 17 Electron apps on an 8GB Mac (and built an alternative that uses 2.2GB RAM)
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Like many developers, I work on an 8GB Mac (2019 MacBook Pro). If you keep Slack, Teams, Outlook, Spotify, and Notion open, Activity Monitor quickly climbs past 10GB and swap memory thrashes your machine.
I built Rammax (https://rammax.vercel.app) to fix this by sharing a single native Apple WebKit process pool instead of running 17 separate Chromium browser runtimes.
📊 Real Benchmark on 8GB Hardware:
17 Standalone Electron apps: 12.80 GB (impossible on 8GB without freezing)
Rammax (Native WebKit): 2.24 GB
Physical RAM saved: 10.26 GB (82.1% reduction)
Install in 1 line:
curl -fsSL https://rammax.vercel.app/install.sh
Read original: https://dev.to/eddie3k/i-benchmarked-17-electron-apps-on-an-8gb-mac-and-built-an-alternative-that-uses-22gb-ram-mnm
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