Comment by gyomu
14 hours ago
You must not be doing much else then.
My M1 8GB Air did great before Tahoe; even medium complexity Xcode projects ran fine on it with other apps running. Since I made the mistake of upgrading it to Tahoe, it’s too painful to work in those projects.
Yeah it sounds like you’re the target audience for 16GB of RAM.
If you even know what XCode is you're not the target audience for 8GB
It chugs if I launch a node server yes but that's an outlying use case for an 8gb air.
AI is so good these days I am using the laptop for quick changes more often, as I just push every change. I rarely need to fiddle. The general experience of using my desktop and laptop are converging.
Let me ensure I understand you.
Running a node.js server on Tahoe makes your macbook sluggish and you feel like Tahoe is fine performance wise?
May I reminded you that 10 years ago people also ran chrome and node js webservers and this was not a problem in any way with 8GB of ram.
That's very interesting to hear. I didn't know that.
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> It chugs if I launch a node server yes but that's an outlying use case for an 8gb air.
May I ask if you have many 3rd party apps installed? What apps do you usually keep open at a time? Because 8GB should be more than fine for a node server.
Is it an Apple Silicon Air, or an older Intel model?
What are you doing in your node server? That shouldn't take up a ton of RAM.