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I recently bought an M1 iMac, but mistakenly got the 8GB version instead of 16GB. It’s underpowered. My older, 64GB iMac screams by comparison, which is sad, co
by ttul 5y ago
I recently bought an M1 iMac, but mistakenly got the 8GB version instead of 16GB. It’s underpowered. My older, 64GB iMac screams by comparison, which is sad, considering how fast the M1 chip is. RAM is important.
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- MivLives 5y agoThey seem to make it hard to find the 16GB version. It's never the in stock model unless you want to pay for some other upgrades. That said I have an 8GB version and it's so far handling what I need to do fine, but I'm not doing any heavy dev work on it.
- ttul 5y agoMassive Google Sheets are the main memory hog for me… I suppose I could do work to make the sheets more efficient or move them into a better kind of database. But that would take effort.
- dijit 5y agoLol. That reminds me of the enormous Excel spreadsheets sent around Ubisoft for P&L reasons. I once had the mispleasure of using it, thank god Microsoft office is 64bit because that spreadsheet was gigabytes in size and multiples of that in memory. You couldn’t use the machine for anything else when it was open; even my “very high end” workstation machine crawled to a halt.
- azinman2 5y agoWhy not return it if you got the wrong one?
- SwiftyBug 5y agoThe other day I was in an Apple Store and ran some basic tests on two MacBooks. One with 8Gb RAM, M1 chip and the other with 16Gb RAM, Intel Core i7 chip. I simultaneously ran on both machines a Python script that calculates a Fibonacci number non-recursively. The M1 performed significantly worse for any values entered. This surprised me, so I guessed that had something to do with RAM?
- Devid2014 5y agoThe problem is that even 16GB is really not that much for 2021. As of today 32GB should be considered minimum.