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I'll be honest. I did a year on an 8Gb M1 Mini and it was absolutely fine.

I was writing Go, LaTeX, doing all usual Apple apps stuff, using MS Office, remote admin etc. Used Safari as the native browser. Was using Apple Photos for personal photo management (about 75 gig)

The only time I hit problems was when I put Adobe near it with Lightroom and Slack.

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In general I have much better experiences on MacOS with 8G of RAM than on Windows or Linux. Very happy that I have 16G on my current machine, but I feel like 90% of the stuff I do (even as a dev!) would go perfectly fine on 8G.

I feel like people are using their experience with 8GB on other platforms and projecting their experience to other people. I feel like MacOS memory management is VERY on-point.

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