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I don't understand... I routinely run my M1 Air with 4 instances of jetbrains IDEs, have dual screen, Safari with tens of tabs, additional apps like Rocket chat
by JodieBenitez 3y ago
I don't understand... I routinely run my M1 Air with 4 instances of jetbrains IDEs, have dual screen, Safari with tens of tabs, additional apps like Rocket chat and more... and the machine never go past 8gb ram. What's going on with others ?
- fragmede 3y agoTens? try hundreds of tabs, across three browsers. also Docker.
- JodieBenitez 3y agoWhy should I use hundreds of tabs ? I don't think I could even use this, I'd be lost. Also Why should I use Docker ? From the article: > Yes, you need more than 8GB No, I don't.
- devjab 3y agoI run my minimum spec m1 air with docker, vsc and all the same things I run on my work lenovo t14 or something with 32gb ram and my m1 runs better. So I'm not sure why 8gb wouldn't be enough for most things on a macbook, and I do wonder what the hell windows is doing. That being said. I don't see why Apple wouldn't put 16gb in the M3 pros. I mean, I don't really get why you'd buy the smallest pro instead of just getting the air, but it does seem cheap of Apple to only put 8GB of ram into it.
- CharlesW 3y ago> What's going on with others ? What's going on is that almost none of the people posting here have used an Apple Silicon Mac with 8GB of RAM, and don't realize that it's a very different experience than trying to use a PC with 8GB of RAM.