[gcanyon]

I recently upgraded from my M1 Air specifically because I had purchased it with 8gb -- silly me. Now I have 24gb, and if the Air line had more available I would have sprung for 32, or even 64gb. But I'm not paying for a faster processor just to get more memory :-/

[regularfry]

I got an 8GB M1 from work, and I've been frankly astonished with what even this machine can do. Yes, it'll run the 4bit llama3 quants - not especially fast, mind, but not unusably slow either. The problem is that you can't do a huge amount else.