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Can you elaborate?

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?

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It depends on the amount of tabs you have open. I have 106 tabs open in FF and it takes up RAM. Activity monitor lists it at 3.28gb though.

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.

The system really starts to bog down with 15 ~ 20 tabs open for things like jira, roam, email, etc. CPU usage will be very low but when swapping is in effect system slowdown is really noticeable. I don't see the same issue with Safari but of course Safari does not have the extensions I rely on.

I love the Air but excited for my 64gb macbook pro arriving in a month.

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