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The SSDs in the apple silicon machines are likely much much faster than whatever you have in your macbook pro so when they do spill over into swap it would be m

The SSDs in the apple silicon machines are likely much much faster than whatever you have in your macbook pro so when they do spill over into swap it would be much less noticeable. That being said, I'm pretty pro apple silicon (purchased an M2 Pro this morning) and I would never recommend anyone buy a new computer with less than 16GB of ram unless the usecase is strictly web browsing/streaming/ms word type stuff.

darkteflon 4y ago
Yep, you'll definitely still notice swapping on the 8gb version.
sirsinsalot 4y ago
And yet I remember my old 286 with what? 500mb of ram or something ...
- AnnualDegree99 4y ago
  500 megs sounds wayy off for a 286, by an order of magnitude or two. Windows XP required 256.
- dlevine 4y ago
  More like 1MB of RAM. Our 286 (which was the first computer my family owned) also had a 40MB Hard Disk, which seemed like plenty at the time. It could run Windows 3.1 with that, although it wasn't exactly fast.
  - sirsinsalot 4y ago
    I never claimed to have good memory. Just a 286. It may have had a turbo button. I've done many drugs and many years since then.
- dgoodell 4y ago
  I think the 80286 could support a max of 16mb of ram. I doubt many computers built from them had anywhere near that much ram.
  - cjcampbell 4y ago
    I scrounged enough chips and a carrier board to max my Compaq out at 3.6MB. That may have been a model specific limitation. I believe that this computer had a 20MB hard drive, and that I eventually ran Stacker to compress the volume and squeeze out a bit more space. I know for sure that I never got anywhere close to 100MB. On one of my computers in this era, I managed to get a paperwhite VGA and Windows 3.11 (for workgroups) running despite not meeting product specs. My 40-something brain is not quite reliable enough for me to state this with any certainty.
  - girvo 4y ago
    I had a Pentium 1, 100mhz with 16MB of ram. Was a beast playing MechWarrior 2 and Terminal Velocity!
- _moof 4y ago
  As long as we're reminiscing about old specs... my first hard drive was 20 megs, external, and the size of a small pizza box.

darkteflon 4y ago

Yep, you'll definitely still notice swapping on the 8gb version.

sirsinsalot 4y ago

And yet I remember my old 286 with what? 500mb of ram or something ...

AnnualDegree99 4y ago
500 megs sounds wayy off for a 286, by an order of magnitude or two. Windows XP required 256.
dlevine 4y ago
More like 1MB of RAM. Our 286 (which was the first computer my family owned) also had a 40MB Hard Disk, which seemed like plenty at the time. It could run Windows 3.1 with that, although it wasn't exactly fast.
- sirsinsalot 4y ago
  I never claimed to have good memory. Just a 286. It may have had a turbo button. I've done many drugs and many years since then.
dgoodell 4y ago
I think the 80286 could support a max of 16mb of ram. I doubt many computers built from them had anywhere near that much ram.
- cjcampbell 4y ago
  I scrounged enough chips and a carrier board to max my Compaq out at 3.6MB. That may have been a model specific limitation. I believe that this computer had a 20MB hard drive, and that I eventually ran Stacker to compress the volume and squeeze out a bit more space. I know for sure that I never got anywhere close to 100MB. On one of my computers in this era, I managed to get a paperwhite VGA and Windows 3.11 (for workgroups) running despite not meeting product specs. My 40-something brain is not quite reliable enough for me to state this with any certainty.
- girvo 4y ago
  I had a Pentium 1, 100mhz with 16MB of ram. Was a beast playing MechWarrior 2 and Terminal Velocity!
_moof 4y ago
As long as we're reminiscing about old specs... my first hard drive was 20 megs, external, and the size of a small pizza box.