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I suddenly needed to replace my maxed out M1 Pro Max with a new laptop a couple months ago. The base M2 Air 8GB was the only one that would ship to me quickly. I was reluctant because I figured it would barely be functional with that much memory - before I got rid of my Pro, I loaded up my usual workload and checked how much memory was being used in total, and it was easily more than 8GB.

But I've been doing my usual (Firefox with many tabs, VS Code with a bunch of tabs and a couple windows, a Next.js dev server or two, multiple terminals, sometimes even more apps open) and I haven't noticed even a slight struggle to handle the load, no frame drops or anything.

Of course, it only supports 1 external monitor instead of the 2 I was using with the Pro. I'm sure it would struggle with the heavier VM/docker workloads. But it handles medium demands just fine.