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Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by BirAdam on Monday May 23, 2022 @10:17AM (#31479333)
Memory management on M1 is actually quite amazing. With an entry level M1 mini, I can have a crap ton of stuff open and it doesn’t choke. I can run UTM and have Chrome and a few electron apps open, and have many terminal windows open. No sweat.

For disk, I just put a 1tb NVMe in an external USBC enclosure, cuz most of my data doesn’t need crazy I/O and I feel like Apple charges too much for disk space.

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Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by EugeneOZ on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:49PM (#31487774)
I own one M1 with 8Gb RAM, one with 16Gb, and one with 32 - 8Gb was enough only for basic tasks (I’m a web developer, TS + Rust). Anything non-trivial was causing swapping.

Memory management is quite usual, nothing magical. The disk is faster, but it's not the reason to rely on swapping, still.

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