> even people on HN now seem to parrot it. There's no need for personal attacks. > as soon as your heap is tapped out you'll hit a performance wall. Yes, pro

> even people on HN now seem to parrot it. There's no need for personal attacks. > as soon as your heap is tapped out you'll hit a performance wall. Yes, probably. Two points though: 1. My comment was that _if_ SSD performance was comparable to RAM, there would be no need for the latter. 2. I have very rarely swapped on my 16Gb M1 Air, and when I did I only noticed later when looking back at graphs. I'm sure there was a performance hit but I never felt it. > Any actual, professional use will put you way north of even 16gb. I do plenty of actual, professional use on my 16Gb M1 Air. Right now I have 3 VS Code windows open compiling Go code, running acceptance tests and whatnot. I also have Mail, Safari (with tens of tabs) and Firefox (with >100 tabs) open. A few minutes ago I also had Slack open on it. I regularly start iTerm to do terminal tasks. You must have an Intel machine. I had a powerful fully specced 32Gb i9 16" MBP. This cheap and humble 16Gb passively cooled M1 blows it right out of the water in every single aspect. It's even better at running Intel Docker images!