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16GB really isn't enough these days. I put 64 GB in my machine for as little as 200 EUR. How much would that cost in Apple land? Extra 1000?
by askonomm 3y ago
16GB really isn't enough these days. I put 64 GB in my machine for as little as 200 EUR. How much would that cost in Apple land? Extra 1000?
- acdha 3y ago16GB isn’t enough for Windows. macOS is surprisingly more efficient - it’s not just swapping to their faster storage, either: lots of attention to detail everywhere means that you see less memory pressure across the board. Even using VSC, Teams, and Podman heavily, 16GB has plenty of headroom. The reason you can’t update the RAM on Apple silicon is the engineering tradeoff they made to have it be faster. That required work on the software side – e.g. they added a CPU extension to compress memory pages and updated the OS to use it effectively – but they have the advantage of not needing to coordinate multiple internal feuding factions and outside vendors the way that Microsoft has to.
- askonomm 3y agoI have a 16GB MacBook Pro (M2 Pro chip), and my Linux PC (I don't use Windows) runs a lot smoother than my MacBook does for programming tasks such as running IntelliJ / Android Studio / bunch of docker vm's.