[catnip09]

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 definitely notice it.

[danwee]

> 5-6 containers simultaneously with other applications? 64gb if you don't want to end up with swap. 32gb is the bare minimum.

That's not right in my experience. I have the MBP Pro M1 with 32 GB, and have a few VMs with docker containers inside (plus all my IDEs, terminals, google chrome tabs, music, etc.) and 32GB is plenty. Not sure the impact of having running as well Photoshop while all the VMs are up, though.

[ivanvanderbyl]

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.

[kujin88]

Thanks!

[kujin88]

Oh, thanks for clarifying on the swap part. I somehow thought it's as good as let's say DDR2 RAM haha

[catnip09]

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?

[kujin88]

nope, I just used the DDR2 reference for comparison. Thanks!