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I have chrome and firefox running, 20 tabs between the two, some heavy ones (google doc, gmail), iterm and PDFs with preview on an MBA 4GB, no issues, memory pressure in activity monitor is still green. One little nitpick, my dev enviroment is on a remote 4GB VM ;)

What applications do you run that make it so bad for you?

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I have quite a few more tabs open at any point in time including some large spreadsheets so 8GB tends to be my minimum before I start noticing on Windows/Firefox even with an M2 SSD. Firefox alone is at 4GB for me. This is also my fault for not snoozing/bookmarking aggressively.

i run intelij idea, firefox, dbeaver, spotify, and a regular python stack and that's enough to consume the 8gb ram that i have on my matebook 13. and when all ram is consumed and it hits swap it's so slow that i get hicups, and that with ssd. i tweaked idea to use less ram, and if and i can keep it below 7.x it works ok. i have no idea how u can use anything with 4gb. on my macbook it's the same but i dont get hickups if i hit more then 16gb on my machine.

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