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Configurable to 16GB.
by smilespray 6y ago
Configurable to 16GB.
- mhh__ 6y ago16GB in 2021 is still pretty tight for what is at the end of the day a premium product.
- throw0101a 6y agoStill only semi-useful, especially if you want to run VMs. The most recent x86 iMacs could offlicially hold 128GB (4 x 32GB DIMMs). * https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201191 https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201191 * https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/imac-2019-27-inch https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/imac-2019-27-inch
- jandrese 6y agoIMHO not doing the 16GB update is a huge mistake. Even though you're going to pay the Apple Tax on it, the memory is going to be the limiting factor in the life of this machine.
- Reason077 6y agoI have an 8GB MacBook Air, which I use extensively for development (Xcode, Eclipse, often both at the same time) and I'm actually really happy with it. 8GB on the M1 machines feels much, much faster than 8GB on an Intel MacBook Pro. No doubt there is swapping going on, but it's so fast you just don't notice it. (I would probably have got the 16GB upgrade if it were available, but 16GB can only be custom ordered directly from Apple)
- jandrese 6y agoI think you can get away with it today, but in a couple of years it will feel like a mistake. Apple will do something crazy like put GPU accelerate AI autocomplete in XCode that works great, but eats up 3GB of GPU memory, which is system memory in a unified system like this. The new web framework du jour will eat up 1GB per tab and people will think nothing of it. Apple will release OS updates that consume more and more of the base memory. I think the 8GB devices are going to be living on borrowed time in a couple of years. The worst part is when you start swapping heavily it is going to eat into the write endurance on the built-in non-replaceable SSD.