I deeply regret getting only 16gb ram in my air for exactly this reason.
Yeah, I regret it. I like to have YouTube videos on in the background, and usually it's fine, but for some reason live streams in particular just gobble up RAM until there's sometimes skipping audio and noticeable waits when switching apps.
Interestingly hiding the chat seems to help; I wonder if the YouTube "app" isn't flushing those DOM nodes corresponding to chat messages off the page after a certain amount of time or something. When worse comes to worse, Streamlink comes to the rescue: https://streamlink.github.io
Oh well. Making do for now. And as others have said, the performance (when not RAM-constrained) and noise (or lack thereof) have been blissful.
I don't have a MacBook (but have been considering getting one), but I can't imagine that you need more that 16 GB of RAM to run a browser, no matter how memory-hungry Chrome might be.
Is this really an issue? Maybe you're trolling?
I don't understand how adding more memory is going to fix your performance. It's not like you're spinning up a HDD to swap.
What do you regret?
Chrome has separate processes and fewer tabs on my machine. Still summing them up seems to reach 3gb.
IntellJ takes 6gb on my machine so it's the biggest individual user of RAM.
I think parent post might be exaggerating but I have the 64gb M1 Max.
I love the Air but excited for my 64gb macbook pro arriving in a month.