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Apple really shouldn't sell Macs with less than 16GiB of RAM. The first set of M1s got some bad press because so many folks were plagued by pop-ups saying they

• sgarland 3y ago
  As someone with a base model M1 Air, I’ve never experienced this issue from normal workloads. The ONLY times I’ve exceeded memory capacity were doing expensive computations without chunking, and running minikube. I’m neither a Node dev nor an AI person, though, so that probably helps.
  • jsjohnst 3y ago
    Have a half dozen Google Docs open at once and you could force an 8gb machine to start swapping. Just saying.
    • sgarland 3y ago
      This is only slightly hyperbolic, after having checked it. Each GDoc tab (in Safari) took ~600 MiB. What caused the swap was the other browser window with two Gmail tabs, each of which took over 1 GiB, which when combined with some other apps I had open, broke it. I stand corrected. 8 GiB might be enough IFF you're not doing heavy multi-tasking during development, and you're not coding in JS or its offshoots. I will say the comments about "the SSD is so fast you won't notice" is true from an end-user perspective, in that I experienced no visible lag on any app. This may not be true with the smaller-capacity M2 models, since they have slower SSDs than the base M1s.
      • jsjohnst 3y ago
        > This is only slightly hyperbolic, after having checked it. Each GDoc tab (in Safari) took ~600 MiB. It very much depends on the size of the document and how long it’s been open. I’ve actually had Gdocs be over 3gb for a single document in Safari before.
• astrange 3y ago
  That's OS or app bugs. The way that dialog works isn't just how much RAM you have.