Comment by skiing_crawling

I bought a 8gb m1 air just a few days ago to use as a travel laptop. The 8gb gives me memory anxiety coming from my 48gb m4, but it did force me to turn off some settings I never liked (siri, spotlight indexing) and I also discovered zed, ghostty, and orbstack to replace vscode, iterm, and docker desktop.

The memory limit is probably in my head now, it does pretty well as long as I'm not obsessing over activity monitor.