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points by bigyabai 2 days ago | 0 comments
It's a fairly realistic lower-bound for professional macOS work, if you don't want to thrash the SSD with zram writes.
[–] foldr 2 days ago
Aside from running local LLMs (which is tight on 32GB anyway), what on Earth are people doing that requires 32GB as a bare minimum? I have 24GB on my current MacBook Pro and never find myself limited by it. My work MacBook Pro has 16GB, and that is occasionally a bit tight. However, that's largely because the stingy 512GB SSD quickly fills up, leaving no room for swap, not because I really need more RAM as such.

That said, I don't believe that SSDs can feel pain, so I am quite happy for the OS to thrash them as much as necessary. The fear of SSD failure is massively overblown IMO.

[–] throwAway30303 1 day ago
As I happily whir away on my 8Gb Neo.

Everything I use, almost literally everything, is either cloud or a box I’m ssh’d into.

I can see how I’m the exception, though.

[–] asdff 2 days ago
If you find yourself loading that much stuff in memory you probably need to offshore your compute
[–] bigyabai 2 days ago
As the saying goes, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.