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I would certainly prefer more RAM but I have a 8GB M1 MacBook Air and I do web development in VSCode fine. It's never been a problem for me personally.
by teg4n_ 2y ago
I would certainly prefer more RAM but I have a 8GB M1 MacBook Air and I do web development in VSCode fine. It's never been a problem for me personally.
- yumraj 2y agoTake a look at the memory pressure in task manager. We use an M1 8GB MBA purely as a home browsing laptop and it constantly gets into yellow memory pressure with few tabs open across FF and Safari. Performance might be acceptable but I’m sure it’s paging like crazy reducing the SSD, and hence the MBA’s life.
- smcleod 2y agoAbsolutely spot on. Try running a couple of small containers or browsing some code docs online at the same time and you’ll be swapping.
- floydnoel 2y agoi would rather eat my thumb than run a container of anything on a macbook air. 8gb of ram is not for bloat-lovers. it works great for web dev.
- okdood64 2y ago> It's never been a problem for me personally. > Take a look at the memory pressure in task manager. They just said it's never been a problem for it. What does looking at his memory pressure do? Give them a false sense that something is wrong now? That said if I did regular development on my personal laptop, I'd want 16GB. But if it's not an issue for someone's use case, I don't see a problem.