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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
by 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 agoHave a half dozen Google Docs open at once and you could force an 8gb machine to start swapping. Just saying.
- sgarland 3y agoThis 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.