Comment by akdev1l
12 hours ago
MacOS is crazy efficient and can overcommit quite a lot.
I used an M1 Pro for a couple years to work. 8GB of ram but routinely using 12GB including swap.
Now, I couldn’t keep slack and outlook open so there were limitations but I was able to work. People are underestimating the usefulness of 8GB of RAM.
I guess it is also worth saying that I do my work by connecting to a remote server where I do the actual development and everything else. The Mac itself being a web browser and ssh machine
Not being able to keep Slack and Outlook open at the same time seems like a pretty significant productivity hindrance to me. 8GB RAM is truly pathetic in 2022.
I’m freaking out the equivalent of mutt and irc require more than 8GB of RAM to run simultaneously.
What are modern operating systems and applications doing?
You can post images in Slack and use text formatting. Those are things that use memory.
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Gifs. I'm only half joking.
I used outlook on the browser when needed and slack was open most of the time
I also had around 200 tabs open on the regular
Now I wouldn’t tell you it was a good experience because it wasn’t. But it was usable even pushing the hardware to the max.
Children don't have Slack and Outlook open. Gmail in a web browser and Discord, maybe. My old M1 Air works just fine for productivity workloads, and has for years.
Is Slack that much worse of a memory hog than Discord? Aren’t they both built on electron?
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Do you actually have a problem with Slack and Outlook open at the same time on an Apple Silicon Mac with 8GB of memory? Or are you assuming?
I was replying to someone that made that claim from apparent experience.
Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.
> Not being able to keep Slack and Outlook open at the same time seems like a pretty significant productivity hindrance to me. 8GB RAM is truly pathetic in 2022.
I read this as how bad software quality has gone down, that a mail program and a chat program don't fit in 8GB of RAM.