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by supermatt 1886 days ago
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.
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rovr138 1886 days ago
> 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.

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supermatt 1886 days ago
Memory management is different on the M1. This has been widely discussed.
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rovr138 1886 days ago
"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.

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supermatt 1885 days ago
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...
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vondro 1884 days ago
It can swap to ssd real fast.
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