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I was about to say that both my M2 Macs (laptop and mini) run fine with 8gb. Haven't noticed any problems. I don't play high-end games, though.

wannacboatmovie 3y ago
"8GB should be enough for anybody"
- Cheer2171 3y ago
  640K was enough for anybody when that quote was made.
justsomehnguy 3y ago
It's always amusing to see how Mx Mac fanbois always forget to add "in my use case".
- pxmpxm 3y ago
  I can never quite figure out what the use case is - as I sit here with 2 brave tabs open, my 10.13 mac is using up 13.58gb of ram. These conversations usually usually end up at "my 8gb ram machine actually swaps constantly, but it's fine because otherwise I'd have to face the cognitive dissonance of justifying this purchase, so I'd rather repeat the apple marketing line they came up with to BS around their poor silicon yields"
  - lostlogin 3y ago
    I’m not sure that usage means anything. If it needed more it would be more aggressive in clearing stuff out as far as I can tell.
    - pxmpxm 3y ago
      Clearing out means swapping to disk, right?
      - lostlogin 3y ago
        Perhaps? Maybe it’s the speed of the SSD that prevents me noticing it, but it sure feels fast and I don’t have a ton of memory
  - throwaway44110 3y ago
    The SWE colleague sitting next to me has a M1 Air with 8 GB RAM and runs VS Code, multiple browsers with many tabs, Slack and Webpack with the TS/React app he works on just fine. Dual display setup too.
  - skybrian 3y ago
    That's so high I suspect measurement error. How did you come up with that number? (It does look like my machine is using some swap space, but I don't notice any lag, so I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that.)
- thebruce87m 3y ago
  Of course it’s for their use case, what else would it be? Every use case?
lostlogin 3y ago
There are two things going on here. The M series seem quite efficient with ram, and Apple are ludicrously stingy with it.

wannacboatmovie 3y ago

"8GB should be enough for anybody"

Cheer2171 3y ago
640K was enough for anybody when that quote was made.

justsomehnguy 3y ago

It's always amusing to see how Mx Mac fanbois always forget to add "in my use case".

pxmpxm 3y ago
I can never quite figure out what the use case is - as I sit here with 2 brave tabs open, my 10.13 mac is using up 13.58gb of ram. These conversations usually usually end up at "my 8gb ram machine actually swaps constantly, but it's fine because otherwise I'd have to face the cognitive dissonance of justifying this purchase, so I'd rather repeat the apple marketing line they came up with to BS around their poor silicon yields"
- lostlogin 3y ago
  I’m not sure that usage means anything. If it needed more it would be more aggressive in clearing stuff out as far as I can tell.
  - pxmpxm 3y ago
    Clearing out means swapping to disk, right?
    - lostlogin 3y ago
      Perhaps? Maybe it’s the speed of the SSD that prevents me noticing it, but it sure feels fast and I don’t have a ton of memory
- throwaway44110 3y ago
  The SWE colleague sitting next to me has a M1 Air with 8 GB RAM and runs VS Code, multiple browsers with many tabs, Slack and Webpack with the TS/React app he works on just fine. Dual display setup too.
- skybrian 3y ago
  That's so high I suspect measurement error. How did you come up with that number? (It does look like my machine is using some swap space, but I don't notice any lag, so I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that.)
thebruce87m 3y ago
Of course it’s for their use case, what else would it be? Every use case?

lostlogin 3y ago

There are two things going on here. The M series seem quite efficient with ram, and Apple are ludicrously stingy with it.