There are some stunning discounts available on Mac minis, but the discount disappears as soon as you add memory or storage.
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There are some stunning discounts available on Mac minis, but the discount disappears as soon as you add memory or storage.
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@tewha which you need to do because you exist in the real world.
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@octothorpe Yeah. There are a number of things I could do with an 8GB Mini, but I wouldn't want to commit to doing only those things.
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@tewha I’ve had an 8gb mini for several years now, and it’s barely functional. Gods forbid I need to have Roon *and* safari running at the same time. It’s basically always paging if I have to open more than one app.
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@octothorpe Apple Silicon?
I used a 8GB M1 MacBook Air and it was okay for a tab or two in Safari, Xcode and iOS Simulator. Adding Mail or a few more tabs caused paging.
I think Apple's changes to VM improved Mac's low memory handling a lot. There was a lot of paging in but the paging out seemed to be replaced with simple purging.
If you want to actually keep everything RAM resident I think you'd probably want 24GB.
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@tewha yeah, when I decided to ‘go native’ and trade my hackintosh for real apple hardware, I was incensed to discover that if I wanted 64GB of RAM (the amount I had on the hack, and still paged occasionally, but fine for 95% the time), I’d have to go ULTRA, which added an additional $1000 to the price, not including the RAM. If I had to pay retail, it would have run me ~$5000.
I hate the games they play.
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@tewha but yeah, the mini is an m1. It was basically my ATV substitute, but it sucked that I kinda only use it headless.
Keep in mind that 8GB is shared with the GPU, so you effectively have WAY less RAM than you think.
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@octothorpe I was mostly okay with the 8GB M1 MacBook Air (which was accidental) but never again.
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@tewha my prior jorb gave me a base m1 mac pro (8gb as well). We use figma… entirely useless. I basically never opened the machine again after loading it up. Because our entire company is web based, i just used my tank of a machine, along with its 3 giant monitors.