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It's ridiculous that Apple ships 8GB configurations in 2021. My company bought me a MacBook pro M1 with only 8GB of ram by mistake and it's extremely frustratin

It's ridiculous that Apple ships 8GB configurations in 2021. My company bought me a MacBook pro M1 with only 8GB of ram by mistake and it's extremely frustrating to have so little ram. I look forward to replace it with a laptop with 32GB of ram. Meanwhile I run devops stuff in the cloud because the laptop has not enough ram for that. Once safari advised me to close the jira tab to save ram. Such a shame.

selsta 6y ago
If your use case needs more RAM then simply chose the 16GB option. 8GB RAM is fine for a large portion of casual users and if it keeps the base price down I'm okay with it.
- speedgoose 6y ago
  Yes I wanted the 16GB one since 32GB is not available yet on Apple M1. But Apple sells a premium laptop that is not good enough for many of their users. That's a fact. 8GB is ridiculous and Apple is rich enough to afford 16GB by default on their premium "pro" laptops.
- asdff 6y ago
  It should not cost $200 for 8gb of RAM. Apple has been asking this price for like 10 years. It's ridiculous.
fastball 6y ago
What kinda software are you running?
- speedgoose 6y ago
  Classic devops stuff : - A web browser with many open tabs. - An audio player - A few code editors / IDE - A chat / video conference software since COVID-19 - An email client once in a while that I tend to leave open - Various development tools - The software stack of my company for development in a Linux VM
  - fastball 6y ago
    Fair, my setup is almost identical, except I also do some video editing and I have been very happy with the 16GB MBP 13" (coming from a 32GB MBP 16"). So maybe consider trying to swap your 8GB for a 16GB before thinking you absolutely need 32GB.
solarkraft 6y ago
I'm surprised since I heard the difference was small at worst. Could you elaborate on the RAM issues?
kylec 6y ago
I have the 16GB but I push my machine hard and I usually have gigs swapped and I've been absolutely blown away by the performance of my M1 MBP. Was able to step down from a 32GB version without any issue. I'm kinda surprised you're having such a hard time with 8.

selsta 6y ago

If your use case needs more RAM then simply chose the 16GB option. 8GB RAM is fine for a large portion of casual users and if it keeps the base price down I'm okay with it.

speedgoose 6y ago
Yes I wanted the 16GB one since 32GB is not available yet on Apple M1. But Apple sells a premium laptop that is not good enough for many of their users. That's a fact. 8GB is ridiculous and Apple is rich enough to afford 16GB by default on their premium "pro" laptops.
asdff 6y ago
It should not cost $200 for 8gb of RAM. Apple has been asking this price for like 10 years. It's ridiculous.

fastball 6y ago

What kinda software are you running?

speedgoose 6y ago
Classic devops stuff : - A web browser with many open tabs. - An audio player - A few code editors / IDE - A chat / video conference software since COVID-19 - An email client once in a while that I tend to leave open - Various development tools - The software stack of my company for development in a Linux VM
- fastball 6y ago
  Fair, my setup is almost identical, except I also do some video editing and I have been very happy with the 16GB MBP 13" (coming from a 32GB MBP 16"). So maybe consider trying to swap your 8GB for a 16GB before thinking you absolutely need 32GB.

solarkraft 6y ago

I'm surprised since I heard the difference was small at worst. Could you elaborate on the RAM issues?

kylec 6y ago

I have the 16GB but I push my machine hard and I usually have gigs swapped and I've been absolutely blown away by the performance of my M1 MBP. Was able to step down from a 32GB version without any issue. I'm kinda surprised you're having such a hard time with 8.