• mclannee@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    People recommend such bullshit you would think they are being paid.

    Get the m1 air, it’s good, it’s cheap, and it has great battery life and speakers. Sure an m2 is better but it’s also more expensive, get the m1 air, 8gb don’t listen to shills telling you to get 16gb it’s a trap, just get the base model you will love it.

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      1 year ago

      Lol, how is telling people to get 16GB of RAM shilling? Sure, in his use case 8GB should be enough but investing a bit more in 16GB will only bring benefits in the long term. I have a 16GB M2 and it uses up to 11GB of RAM with 2 tabs of Safari, Spotify and Obsidian open.

      • YouMayNotRestNow@alien.top
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        1 year ago

        MacOS doesn’t use RAM as windows does, the more you have, the more that’ll be used. In MacOS unused RAM is wasted ram, you’ll be using more with 16GB as a buffer and with caching, an 8GB M1 Air is a perfect spec, still can do video and photo editing with it too.

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      1 year ago

      I use the M1 air with 8GB RAM and 512GB hd for software development and two Citrix machines running, no issues with performance