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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (26 children)

I'll admit I don't use Macs, so maybe they are more efficient than the Linux and windows machines I work off...

...but I typically use machines with 64GB and recently upgraded my personal machine to 128GB. I still swap about 50GB to my SSD from time to time.

And I'm not doing heavy graphic design or movie editing stuff.

I cannot fathom for the life of me how 8GB would ever be feasible.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I have a five year old MBP here with 16 gigs of RAM and it runs the latest version of macOS. I can run multiple web browsers with dozens of open tabs, VS Code, an LLM, and a video editing app on it, all simultaneously, without breaking a sweat.

IDK what Apple's secret sauce is but their shit just works better than everyone else's, that's a fact.

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