[barkingcat]

Yes I am using one.

There are workloads that don't fit into 16G ram. Even with paging, there are legitimate needs for 32G and beyond memory sizes.

[supermatt]

What specific workloads? If you bought a 16GB machine to keep 32GB of data in RAM then clearly you bought the wrong machine. But I am able to run WAY more applications in 8GB than the 16GB intel Mac I had previously.

[rovr138]

> But I am able to run WAY more applications in 8GB than the 16GB intel Mac I had previously.

Then your limitation clearly wasn’t RAM.

[supermatt]

Memory management is different on the M1. This has been widely discussed.

[rovr138]

"management" is important.

It can't make it appear out of thin air. If you need 16GB of ram and only have 8GB, you will run out of memory.

[supermatt]

Which is why I asked for specific workloads in the comment you decided to reply to. I also say in the same comment this very thing you are reiterating...

[vondro]

It can swap to ssd real fast.