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IME even the 8GB M1 MBP can handle "average" dev workloads in the web space, but you still have to be wary with going overboard with browsers & IDEs. I'd much
by TheCapeGreek 3y ago
IME even the 8GB M1 MBP can handle "average" dev workloads in the web space, but you still have to be wary with going overboard with browsers & IDEs.
I'd much prefer 16GB, but the Apple Tax on that is insane.
- Alifatisk 3y agoYeah, I would pick 16 GB ram if I had a larger budget but anything over than that feels excessive? I have a MBP M2 8GB and do both Rails and Flutter development running multiple containers, still I have barely reached the full usage of my ram. What would people need 20+ GB ram for? LLMs?
- TheCapeGreek 3y agoInteresting you don't reach full usage - I'm deep in swap most of the time. But, I don't have any performance issues until something has a memory leak or I've got too many IDE windows open. I think a lot of us techies have also become too used to just having as many programs open at once as possible, and that of course can be quite demanding in terms of resources when you have a lot of day-to-day as well as work tools open.