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Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
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[–] Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I found for most CS-ish tasks 8GB is okay. I also bought an early M1 and haven't had too many problems outside of running VMs, which I expected. I purchased one of the stocked configurations at an Apple store, so there were slim pickings with 16GB of memory that weren't like double the price of the machine.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, my guess is 2x accounts is the cause of 90% of my performance issues. One person’s Adobe crap is fine, but two us too much for 8gigs without the occasional beach ball.