What worries me is my desktop has 64Gb of RAM which cost 1/3 of Apple’s usual upgrade mugging.
I think I’ll walk away from this.
Edit: just seen £200 to upgrade from a 8Gb unit to 16Gb.
8GB of RAM for £200 is “get fucked” territory. I paid £240 for the 64Gb in my desktop.
Take a look at your activity monitor and see how many background tasks you laptop is running right now (I currently have 481 and I only have 4 apps actually running).
Compare that to iPad which can run 2 apps max and apple controls all the background activity.
I expected you to say you did something with graphics/media. I guess the VMs could be the difference. I don’t use. But I have 100 chrome tabs open at most times lol.
It really depends on your usage patterns. VM abusers and people who need to keep an eye on more than one project at the same time (as in multiple IDEs) can't do with 16 Gb.
And please don't tell me to start closing software, I'm willing to pay for more ram to have everything handy. Except... I can't.
So far 16GB has been fine on this 2017 MacBook. Wouldn't turn down 32 though :-)
My view into your comment is that you think I'm used to the lag. That's not the case. It's not my only device just my only Apple laptop. My newest device, a iPhone 12 Pro, is an upgrade from my 6s that I surely noticed and knew I would. I had been frustrated by the 6s for a while but held out for 5G.
I'm somewhat impressed by some of these stories about RAM usage - what are people doing?
Please don't.
Don't think so. The M1's RAM is integrated into the SoC package, but it's not actually on the same die.
There's some images showing the discrete RAM modules in Apple's marketing material.
> "Edit: just seen £200 to upgrade from a 8Gb unit to 16Gb."
It's always been this way with Apple. Just in the old days you could pop the modules out and upgrade the RAM yourself.
that gets done for GPUs and CPUs because they're a monolithic die, but AFAIK that's not done for memory chips.