You can say "16gb is enough if you swap efficiently", but I run models that need 100+GB on the regular. I'd love to see what a super high-end Apple core can do to that workload!
"I am in the 0.0001% of the people that need 100+Gb ram", so it seems this massive hit of a cpu/laptop, where everyone is raving about it, is not so good when I compare it to what I need that are thousands of a percent of what regular people use.
I'm a developer, I bought the M1 mbp with 8 (yes eight) gb of ram, for testing and was supposed to then be my gf's machine. You know what, almost 6 months in, she still hasn't touched it. I would maybe go for 16gb in the next one, but she will pry it from my cold dead hands before I get a newer model and she can keep this one.
I bought an M1 for my partner and they aren't using it. I am. The battery life is incredible and it feels snappier than the macbook pro I have for work.
I bought APPL after trying this out
Looks at fanless M1 MacBook Air, with 14+ damn hours of battery life in my real-world use
I mean... OK? My minivan isn't an aircraft carrier, either.
> It really has trouble with the high-end laptop club too.
If you're memory-constrained or doing something with GPU, that might be true. Otherwise, benchmarks plz. And again, high-end laptop... looks at big desktop-replacement laptops, then back over at tiny little fanless MacBook Air
But we haven’t seen what they can really do yet. The M1 sure “feels” like an iPad SoC, what with the weirdness with some of the ports and bus limitations. (External displays: little off-kilter right now in terms of limitations.)
I’m optimistic they are preparing some real firepower for a 30-inch iMac and 16-inch MacBook Pro. Or at least, I sure hope so, as I type here, looking at this damned useless OLED strip above my keyboard as my leg hairs are slowly burned away.
All in all, I think it’s impossible to draw any hard conclusions from here. We all have to wait and see.