[jayd16]

You also lose any dedicated VRAM. That's an extra 4-8 gigs the Intel Macs have.

If you don't need it, you don't need it but to say 16 gigs on an M1 is somehow "better" seems silly to me.

[blunte]

In the developer use cases I described, video memory should not be a big concern. (Edit - also, my described scenario is on my 2019 13" MBP with 16GB RAM, i5 CPU, and puny Intel GPU.)