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		ianhowson on Nov 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery > people claiming that 8 GB isn't enough for the average user I'm not claiming anything of the sort. My point is that memory consumption seems to be greatly reduced in Big Sur, and that might make 8GB machines much better to use than before. All of my testing is on Intel machines. It's not exclusively an M1 phenomenon. I would still recommend 16GB to anyone, and if the extra $200 was a factor, I would recommend that they buy last year's Intel with 16GB of RAM.

ogre_codes on Nov 25, 2020 [–]

> I'm not claiming anything of the sort.

You kind of did:

> (a) every 8GB Mac I've used in the past has been unusably slow

Personally, I stick to 16GB+ as well. Though my wife's Mac likely has 4GB since it's something like 8 years old and it runs just fine.

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