5-6 containers simultaneously with other applications? 64gb if you don't want to end up with swap. 32gb is the bare minimum. Ram on m1 is split between gpu and cpu. 16gb is more like 10gb available to the actual application. Don't believe in all the hype and misinformation surrounding ram efficiency on m1. Swap is fast enough for most casual users to not notice the impact but as a developer or creator, you will defin…
Agreed on 32gb min. My partner has the 16gb model and I have the 32 and developing on hers feels half as fast, it's noticeably slow.
Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
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Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#22In the UK, the upgrade from 16GB to 32GB is £400 ($460). If you have the laptop for five years and presuming you are buying the laptop outright with no interest, the additional RAM will work out costing you 22 pence (25 cents) a day. For something as vital to both your professional life and hobbies as this laptop sounds, are you going to miss 22 pence a day? Additionally, if you sell the laptop at the end of the five…
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#23I have an 8, a 16, and a 64 The 8gb was just not enough. It crashed through normal use often 16gb was greatttt but got slow and weird (audio devices would disappear, requiring a restart) , occasionally with Docker Desktop 64gb is a beast and I'm running parallels windows and parallels KDE and even ELECTRON apps simultaneously ( ;) ) If you can afford it, get the 64. If it's too much, I'm guessing 32 will work very we…
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#24I'm coming from a hackintosh with 64GB of RAM. My workloads vary, from compiling apps, 4K video editing/rendering, gaming, etc. I keep loads of tabs open (safari though), and rarely reboot and don't close apps for days. I bought a Mac Studio with 64GB, but I really feel I could have gotten 32GB and it would have been fine. That said, reading your workload and apps you use, I would get 32GB. Keep in mind that the capa…
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#255-6 containers simultaneously with other applications? 64gb if you don't want to end up with swap. 32gb is the bare minimum. Ram on m1 is split between gpu and cpu. 16gb is more like 10gb available to the actual application. Don't believe in all the hype and misinformation surrounding ram efficiency on m1. Swap is fast enough for most casual users to not notice the impact but as a developer or creator, you will defin…
Oh, thanks for clarifying on the swap part. I somehow thought it's as good as let's say DDR2 RAM haha
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, thanks for clarifying on the swap part. I somehow thought it's as good as let's say DDR2 RAM haha
It is but it is still an order of magnitude slower than the ram on the chip. You don't use ddr2 ram in your pc today, do you?
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#27I'm coming from a hackintosh with 64GB of RAM. My workloads vary, from compiling apps, 4K video editing/rendering, gaming, etc. I keep loads of tabs open (safari though), and rarely reboot and don't close apps for days. I bought a Mac Studio with 64GB, but I really feel I could have gotten 32GB and it would have been fine. That said, reading your workload and apps you use, I would get 32GB. Keep in mind that the capa…
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#28Get the 32 GB.
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#29"Android Studio" Get the 32 GB.
Re: Ask HN: MacBook Pro M1 16GB vs. 32GB
#30I'm coming from a hackintosh with 64GB of RAM. My workloads vary, from compiling apps, 4K video editing/rendering, gaming, etc. I keep loads of tabs open (safari though), and rarely reboot and don't close apps for days. I bought a Mac Studio with 64GB, but I really feel I could have gotten 32GB and it would have been fine. That said, reading your workload and apps you use, I would get 32GB. Keep in mind that the capa…
How would you compare your experiences with the hackintosh and the Mac Studio?
One of the reasons I switched back was that I no longer wanted to tinker with OpenCore & friends, and make a sacrifice to the gods after every OS update :) The other reasons were that I got tired of the heat, noise and energy consumption, and I started to get weird little issues that I could theoretically solve with reinstalling and/or tinkering with the config. I decided that wasn't for me after all.
I love my Mac Studio (Max, 64GB, 2TB). It's actually silent, even when I push it hard. In terms of GPU I took a slight step back, but I only notice that with some games if I run them on extremely high resolution+settings. In terms of CPU I would say it has similar single-core performance but feels a lot faster because of the fast storage. and the reduced energy usage is immediately noticeable. Rendering video is comically fast, which is great.
To be honest, it feels like the best Mac I've ever had, and I've had almost all of them in the past.