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I've been waiting over a year for this. My M1 8GB is simply not up to spec for iOS Dev work. Apple Store literally had nothing with 16GB when I had to buy it. I
by s_dev 4y ago
I've been waiting over a year for this. My M1 8GB is simply not up to spec for iOS Dev work. Apple Store literally had nothing with 16GB when I had to buy it. I asked about when they could get one in -- Apple store assistant told me it would be at least 3 months. This was in Ireland during Covid.
For reference my 2016 MacBook Pro had 16GB RAM so it was surprising to me that 6 years later I would be unable to buy one with 16 GB of RAM. So while the CPUs are amazing what the hell are Apple doing selling machines with such little amounts of RAM?
- firemelt 4y agois 16Gb m2 pro enough for iOS+Android Dev work?
- s_dev 4y agoFor now -- but possibly not in 2024. I would go higher. At least 24 GB if you're buying an M2 Pro.
- mpeg 4y agoI would strongly recommend the M2 air at 24GB, I too bought one of the first M1 airs with 8GB ram and that laptop is just gathering dust right now, but the latest ones are great, the increase in RAM really lets the processor shine.
- technofiend 4y agoWould you recommend it over the 32GB 14" M2 MBP? The price difference is $500 but for the same amount of storage and cores, you get another 8GB of memory, multi-monitor support, faster wifi, another tb4 port, etc. Honestly despite their newness I was hoping the airs would see a small price drop.
- ant6n 4y agoDon’t they have thermal throttling issues?
- Tagbert 4y agoOnly if you are doing long sessions of heavy processing. Even then it just slows down by 15-20% so if you aren’t doing that on a regular basis it shouldn’t be a problem. Under normal loads there is no throttling. If you do video editing on a daily basis, you probably want to look at the MacBook Pros.
- randomopining 4y agoTo make money just like you showed. You got the 8gb and now you want to pay more to get another one with M2 and 16gb+. Apple product segmentation is legendary for extracting the most from consumers.
- kzrdude 4y agoThe 8 GB models are all over the secondhand markets and the 16 GB ones are hard to find, even that.
- real-dino 4y agoIt's also not enough for VSCode and Web Development. Opening VSCode on a medium sized Next.js project takes a good minute or so before Intellisense kicks in. But I'm not willing to pay the prices on the UK website. I think an M3 Air with 32GB will be my next purchase.