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How? What apps are you using? As soon as I plug in an external monitor it turns into molasses. If I try to do a screen share for a video call, it lags. My memo
by Osiris 3y ago
How? What apps are you using?
As soon as I plug in an external monitor it turns into molasses. If I try to do a screen share for a video call, it lags. My memory pressure graph was always maxed out.
If I ran the test suite for one repo the system became unresponsive. Docker would eat 4GB with only two containers (just redis and postgresql for local dev) I had to manually tune docker to use a little as possible.
It was a nightmare.
- aurareturn 3y agoYou're clearly a dev who requires at least 16GB. For many office workers, 8GB is fine.
- Osiris 3y agoI supposed if you only used your $1800 MacBook Pro to use the web browser, then yeah, 8GB would be fine.
- aurareturn 3y agoI wouldn't buy the $1600 M3 14" MBP if that's what you're referring to. I can get an M2 Pro with 32GB for $1800 used easily. That's what I'd spend my money on if I had to get a laptop with $1800.
- fragmede 3y agoDocker on Mac runs a VM, which can't ballon (inflate/deflate memory usage), so it's no wonder 8 GiB isn't enough for you. For those who don't need to use docker and don't that fixed overhead, they're not going to have the same problems. Chrome, Slack, and iTerm can still fill 8 GiB, but you need many more tabs to get there than if you had to run docker.
- pxmpxm 3y agoI am now certain you've never used office 365.