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Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Granted, I’m a developer and my dev ide already uses a good 10+GB, I have probably hundreds of tabs and windows open over 6 desktops… But I got 64GB, and I’m considering upgrading to 128, and these clowns think 8 is okay today? My development laptop of like 10 years ago has 8GB
affa@startrek.website 7 months ago
jaschen@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Most people are similar to him.
datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have 16GB and I have to run shit I dev on local k8s. I have to close teams and my browser to get enough ram sometimes.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Buy more memory, if you have the financial means to do so. If not then I’m sorry you’re in that situation
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’ve been okay with 16 for a while. I use ViM as my editor, and occasionally VSCode. I use a single desktop, but I generally have a half dozen or more tmux tabs for various parts of the project.
That said, I’ve been feeling a bit squeezed with 16GB. The main RAM consumers are:
So I think 16GB should be the minimum, and 24GB should be average. I’m going to be adding another 16GB to my personal development machine (hobbies and whatnot), and my work laptop can’t be upgraded (MacBook), but I’ll be upgrading to an M3 or M4 soonish and will request more RAM.
8GB is probably fine if you’re just running a browser and that’s it. If you’re doing anything else, 16GB should be the minimum.