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I watched a YouTube video testing the latest 8gb M3 yesterday. It struggled running teams in a video call, stuttering as was eating memory. I’d say there are

I watched a YouTube video testing the latest 8gb M3 yesterday. It struggled running teams in a video call, stuttering as was eating memory. I’d say there are a lot of users running multiple Electron and high memory apps without knowing they are running Electron / high memory apps because of the insistence of everyone building cross platform GUI apps using Electron. Your favourite video calling app, notes app, password app, work productivity app will mostly be Electron resource hogs in 2024. OS X was using about 4GB on the test video, that left 4GB for everything else which disappears quickly with just one or two other Electron apps running.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> struggled running teams in a video call...a lot of users running multiple Electron and high memory apps Right. Those people shouldn't get the base model. If most of what you're doing is using FaceTime, Safari, Mail.app and watching videos--which is a surprising fraction of computer users--8GB is fine. If you're doing more you need more. The article argues there is no reasonable market for 8GB Macs. I am disagreeing. It's not a massive market. But it's real, and they're not better served by having more memory.