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8gb was standard not that long ago and was just fine for most people.

• regularfry 8mo ago
  I'm still working on an 8GB M1 Pro. It's just about ok. VS Code plus podman plus Teams plus Slack plus Firefox and it hits the limits; usually Slack is the thing to get killed.
  • cestith 8mo ago
    I’m on a 16GB M1 Pro. Slack, Zoom, then browser tabs for Jira, PagerDuty, GMail, Confluence, and a Google doc and it’s swapping like mad. It’s that fast SSD and the integrated memory, so it swaps quickly. Swapping is still swapping though.
• bubblewand 8mo ago
  It’s great if you run max two “web apps” at a time. More, and it’s heading into “may be a problem” territory. I’ve seen a Gmail tab eat 2.5Gb of memory all on its own… just sitting there. And you need some headroom for content and file caching and such to keep things feeling snappy.
  • ezfe 8mo ago
    cache uses whatever you have
    • redeeman 8mo ago
      im sure that gmail tab is just casually caching gigabytes of email, just in case the user opens it.