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this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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I disagree with this article.
I do all my development on the cheapest MacBook Air, which has the old M1 and only 8GB of RAM. It was $500, which is cheaper than most Windows workstations. I've never noticed performance issues, and I work on some absolute monsters of projects, including game dev in Rust and Godot.
In particular, it works waaaay better for Rust and TypeScript dev than my $3k Dell laptop, because unlike my Dell laptop it doesn't crash every 3 hours and the battery lasts longer than 30 minutes. I can run docker with my full stack and it stays cool as a cucumber, no noticeable lag.
Just because you can get away with 8 does not mean you should. Go google around and find just how cheap an additional 8 gb of laptop RAM is these days.
Just because you can buy 64GB of RAM doesn't mean you need it. Laptops these days are more powerful than supercomputers used to be. If you just spend a little time tuning your applications you barely need any RAM.
I didn't say 64. I said 16 which is perfectly reasonable. Your comment reads like damage control from an apple employee.
I'm pretty sure you said 128 terabytes of RAM