Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by barbariangrunge 1081 days ago
If you don’t mind wearing out your ssd with the insane swap use. You really need 16+ gb of ram on macs, otherwise you’re damaging your hardware
1 comments

That depends on what you're doing. If you're running a bunch of bloated garbage like Discord and Slack and whatever then yeah, you'll need a lot of memory. If you're running mostly native apps you might be surprised how much you can run with 8GB. I would still recommend 16GB to people for future headroom, but 8GB is usable.