I used a M1 with 16GB, and regularly had ~12GB in swap without noticing anything. Once per day, I maybe got a slight 600ms hang when something was unexpectedly

I used a M1 with 16GB, and regularly had ~12GB in swap without noticing anything. Once per day, I maybe got a slight 600ms hang when something was unexpectedly swapped in. So I can imagine that 8GB will work okay, even if Chrome eats 30% of it.