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> My M1 Air is fantastic with thus far only one exception - recent frequent OS out of memory notices, but no apparent single cause. Mmm. That's disconcerting,
by mrtranscendence 5y ago
> My M1 Air is fantastic with thus far only one exception - recent frequent OS out of memory notices, but no apparent single cause.
Mmm. That's disconcerting, as I just bought my fiancee an M1 Air with 8gb. (Getting her to spend more than strictly necessary on a laptop would be worse than pulling teeth.) Hopefully that's not an issue with her computing needs, which should be fairly minimal ... Word, Excel, BlueJeans for teleconferencing, Chrome.
- blunte 5y agoSomething changed which brought these errors on... I suspect it was an OS update. My usage habits did not change, and for the first few months I had none of these errors.
- d1sxeyes 5y agoDo you use a Photos album as screensaver or desktop background?
- blunte 5y agoNope, blank screen screensaver for me. FWIW, it hasn't happened to me in days now. Normally I never reboot, and I usually have a lot of services and dev stuff running in the background that I forget about. Since my last reboot, days ago, I haven't had the problem. Maybe it's because I also haven't been working :D, so the background pressure is low.
- BoorishBears 5y agoFor the record, 8GB was unusable for me as someone who habitually leaves tabs open. I use IDEs that are heavier duty than the average user, but those didn't even seem to be the issue, once I had more than about a couple dozen or so tabs open the machine would start grinding to a halt. Sometimes so badly that even closing applications was difficult. I upgraded to a 16GB and have zero issues now. It seems browser tabs just don't play to the strengths of the M1's memory setup