I had a Mac Pro (16gb ram, 6 cores) that was less than two years old and went in circles with Apple support but Apple could not figure out why my computer kept freezing up. So eventually I bought a new iMac with 32gb ram and 4 cores.<p>Before my Mac Pro I owned an old iMac with only 8gb ram and 2 cores, and only ran 1-2 Electron apps plus chrome and never had problems.<p>I use chrome and between 4 to 5 Electron apps that I know of on a daily basis now days and keep at least 3 open all day. Today my new iMac froze up just like my Mac Pro did. So, my question is (and could be a false dichotomy), is MacOS to blame here or Electron? Why would a brand new iMac freeze up? I've owned plenty of Macs over the ages and only had freezes when I would spin up a virtual machine running Ubuntu--and even then the freezes were not common.
I use a relatively old Macbook that wasn't particularly powerful when it came out (i5, 8Gb). The only time the fans spin up is when cargo needs to compile a billion dependencies for some crate that probably doesn't even need half of them. I use zero electron apps.<p>It's probably the electron apps.<p>>I had a Mac Pro (16gb ram, 6 cores) that was less than two years old(!!!) and went in circles with Apple support but Apple could not figure out why my computer kept freezing up. So eventually I bought a new iMac with 32gb ram and 4 cores.<p>Why would you throw more money at Apple if their support wasn't even able to address your concerns...
How many Chrome tabs? Which Electron Apps?<p>I don't use Chrome, and I specifically avoid Electron apps. My daily machine is a 2011 (YES, 7 years old) MBP 17". It has a quad core i7 @ 2.4GHz and 16GB RAM. My regular work environment is IDEA Ultimate, a Java IDE which uses a good chunk of memory and taxes the CPU quite heavily when indexing source files and Vagrant, so at least one and often multiple Linux VMs, with anywhere from 1 to 2 GB of memory dedicated to each.<p>Even with that, the OS doesn't really freeze.