It runs fine, unless you load up on chrome tabs, or try to run pro apps. Itdoes basic photo editing and admin apps and phone holiday video editing just fine for average users. I have a lot of clients with 8GB M1 machines.
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GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 months agoI mean, at its heart, Mac OS is a heavily re-tooled fork of the BSD platform, so it’s not inconceivable that it’s light enough to run on 8G. I doubt it would run well on 8G, but it could do it.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
just2look@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I know it was lighter than windows the last time I used Mac, but that has been quite a few years now. Hopefully it is a decent machine. Computing just keeps getting more expensive, so having more budget options is definitely good as long as they are reasonably functional.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MacOS’ kernel is derived from Mach and is Apple’s own work since then. Its API compatible with FreeBSD, but it’s not FreeBSD. And the FreeBSD userland tools don’t have effect on systemwide memory management.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My M1 MacBook Air idles at 1.03GB, my XPS 13 running Gnome on Vanilla OS idles 2.4GB
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
GNOME is bloated, try antiX instead.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not looking for anything lighter
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Even a bloated GNOME runs with much less ram than Windows
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d be curious to see what Gnome looks like on Debian stable or the like