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0 pointsslopinthebag26d ago0 comments

MacBooks don't need as much ram - I have an m1 air with 8gb of ram and it's perfectly serviceable, I can even run IntelliJ on it...

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cromka26d ago

I never run out of memory on macoOS on my M1 Air 16GB. Now that I use Asahi on it, I had plenty of OoM crashes.

macOS is really good at memory management, including the compression and offloading to the fast SSD.

Compared to what? Not really true, and hard on the swap drive. Penny-wise meet pound.

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