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16GB still seems tight in 2024

• microtonal 2y ago
  Depends on what you are doing? Our daughter has the original Mac Mini M1 with 8GiB, has a habit to keep everything (PowerPoint, Word, DTP, web browsers, etc.) open and the machine is still lightning-fast. Developer that wants to run IntelliJ, a load of Docker containers, etc.? Sure, that's going to be tight, better get 32 or 64 GiB. Remember that many Mac users are just folks that do web browsing, Office, and a bunch of other things and 16GiB is going to be enough for a few years.
  • OnionBlender 2y ago
    Doesn't MacOS use virtual memory? If the device is low on memory, the apps that are open but not being used would be paged to SSD.
  • gjvc 2y ago
    does Mac Mini go up to 64GB ?
  • fennecbutt 2y ago
    Why defend? So many of you do it. Why not say "Well I'll probably only use 8gb most of the time but good thing my mac came with 16!" I don't understand it. Sure if they were making a loss on ram then whatever. They changed to 16gb base. Why not 32gb? Why don't y'all demand it from em? I don't get this at all.