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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by gs17 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:31PM (#40289700)
Mine is 8GB M1 and it is not fine. But the actual issue for me isn't RAM as much as it is disk space, I'm pretty confident if it wasn't also the 128 GB SSD model it would handle the small memory just fine.

I'm still getting at least 16 GB on my next one though.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by regularfry on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:49PM (#40289927)
Yeah, that's definitely a thing. Podman specifically eats a lot.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by gs17 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:21PM (#40302823)
My exact-ish headache, I have to check my free disk space before launching Docker.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by kalleboo on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:58AM (#40294468)
Yeah personally I find cheaping out on the storage far more egregious than cheaping out on the RAM. Even if you have most things offloaded onto the cloud, 128 GB was not even enough for that, and the 256 GB is still going to be a pain point even for many casual home users, and at the price point of Apple machines it's inexcusable to not add another $25 of flash
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by seec on Saturday May 11, 2024 @04:28PM (#40330446)
Both are disgusting for the price asked. It would be a lot easier to excuse all the other compromises if the base was 16/512, which would cost Apple like 50 bucks tops per machine. But greed is unlimited, I guess.
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