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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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I can almost buy the logic that a macbook air with 8gb is sufficient, but anything with Pro in the name really deserves more.
I have a m1 air with 16gb, and its fantastic for development, but start a few android emulators and docker containers and I can easily run out of RAM. If i can do it with 16gb, it must be trivial to hit with only 8gb.
In my area, I see heaps of 8gb macbooks being resold with only 1-2 battery cycles, my assumption is that people are buying the bottom spec only to discover that it is not adequate (I could be wrong though)
As I said, that’s not the regular use case for most people.