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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by eulers_secret on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:10AM (#25055682)
Thank you for posting this! I was so confused when folks were saying 16GB of ram was too little.

I run Linux on all my machines, and even running many (5-10) containers, 16GB was plenty. I now understand a bit better.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by barrkel on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:55AM (#25056712)
My Linux laptop locks up every now and then with swapping when I'm running our app in k3s; three database servers (2 mysql, 1 clickhouse), 4 JVMs, node, rails, IntelliJ, Chrome, Firefox and Slack, and you're starting to hit the buffers. I was contemplating adding more ram; 64 GB looks appealing.

I would not buy a new machine today for work with less than 32 GB.

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