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I got an M1 macbook pro from work, who through several layers of bureaucracy got me a 16 inch instead of the requested 14 inch, and with 8GB RAM instead of the

I got an M1 macbook pro from work, who through several layers of bureaucracy got me a 16 inch instead of the requested 14 inch, and with 8GB RAM instead of the requested 16GB. For running a huge data processing platform in containers, BI tools, powerpoint and excel, etc. I would describe it as "no unexpected problems that aren't natural consequences of choices": Apple's memory and swap management is actually shockingly good under the circumstances, it does thrash the SSD a bunch, and it locks up hard if put to sleep under heavy memory pressure. One mitigation is just leaving it awake overnight before any critical demos, etc. EDIT: I was wrong; it is a 16GB model, 32GB was the ask, performance is as described, it feels smaller; 8GB would probably be totally unusable.

tiltowait 3y ago
> who through several layers of bureaucracy got me a 16 inch instead of the requested 14 inch, and with 8GB RAM instead of the requested 16GB. The 16" M1 Pro came with a minimum 16GB of RAM. https://support.apple.com/kb/SP858?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/SP858?locale=en_US So did the 14". https://support.apple.com/kb/SP854?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/SP854?locale=en_US
linmob 3y ago
Sorry to ask, but are you sure about the exact specs? I wasn't aware of a 16" MacBook Pro M1(Pro|Max) with 8GB of RAM and Wikipedia [0] seems to confirm this. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro_(Apple_silicon) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro_(Apple_silicon)