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I have an 8GB Macbook Air M1. I purchased the base model because there were long waits for 16GB versions. Honestly, for simple use it is fine. I use Affinity P

by AmVess 6y ago

I have an 8GB Macbook Air M1. I purchased the base model because there were long waits for 16GB versions. Honestly, for simple use it is fine. I use Affinity Photo and it is nearly as fast as my Ryzen 3700/32GB box, and is faster in some instances. For simple editing of home videos with Final Cut Pro taken with my DSLR, it is surprisingly useful. I wouldn't want to do big projects with it, but it is fine for what it is. I certainly couldn't say that about my Dell XPS that had 2x the ram and sounded like an industrial vacuum cleaner under any moderate load. It runs World of Warcraft fine, which takes a decent amount of GPU power to run even though it is an older game.

tokamak-teapot 6y ago
M1 Air 8GB here too. Happily developing a cross platform app in XCode. Silently and fast.
smoldesu 6y ago
>which takes a decent amount of GPU power to run even though it is an older game. I must be out of the loop on what constitutes as "decent GPU power", but my $600 desktop from 2014 plays WOW at max settings and 1440p without issue. Are there any other GPU benchmarks you've tried?
- dangus 6y ago
  Yeah and that was my original point, nobody buying an ultrabook-style laptop is expecting to run Cyberpunk with Ray Tracing enabled. A laptop like that can't even run a game that might take you over the 8GB threshold - i.e., you're not RAM-bound. If you can run DOTA, League Of Legends, Fortnite, Rocket League, etc, and run your streaming/voice and text chat/browser apps simultaneously, then you're golden. And I think, for that use case, RAM is basically not a concern. Someone with an 8GB MacBook Air/XPS 13/X1 Carbon can do that exact workflow.
  - smoldesu 6y ago
    >Someone with an 8GB MacBook Air/XPS 13/X1 Carbon can do that exact workflow. Ahem, you mentioned Fortnite in there somewhere. The XPS 13 and Carbon are both excellent machines in that regard, but there's some... arbitrary limitations on the behalf of the M1's Fortnite capabilities.

by AmVess 6y ago

tokamak-teapot 6y ago

M1 Air 8GB here too. Happily developing a cross platform app in XCode. Silently and fast.

smoldesu 6y ago

>which takes a decent amount of GPU power to run even though it is an older game. I must be out of the loop on what constitutes as "decent GPU power", but my $600 desktop from 2014 plays WOW at max settings and 1440p without issue. Are there any other GPU benchmarks you've tried?

dangus 6y ago
Yeah and that was my original point, nobody buying an ultrabook-style laptop is expecting to run Cyberpunk with Ray Tracing enabled. A laptop like that can't even run a game that might take you over the 8GB threshold - i.e., you're not RAM-bound. If you can run DOTA, League Of Legends, Fortnite, Rocket League, etc, and run your streaming/voice and text chat/browser apps simultaneously, then you're golden. And I think, for that use case, RAM is basically not a concern. Someone with an 8GB MacBook Air/XPS 13/X1 Carbon can do that exact workflow.
- smoldesu 6y ago
  >Someone with an 8GB MacBook Air/XPS 13/X1 Carbon can do that exact workflow. Ahem, you mentioned Fortnite in there somewhere. The XPS 13 and Carbon are both excellent machines in that regard, but there's some... arbitrary limitations on the behalf of the M1's Fortnite capabilities.