Try running anything interesting on these 8gb of ram.

You need 96gb or 128gb to do non trivial things. That is not yet 749 usd

badc0ffee 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Fair enough, but they start at 16GB nowadays.

kylec 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The M4 starts with 16GB, though that can also be tight for local LLMs. You can get one with 24GB for $1149 right now though, which is good value.

jki275 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

64gb is fine.

	▲	kibwen 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This subthread is about the Macbook Air, which tops out at 32 GB, and can't be upgraded further. While browsing the Apple website, it looks like the cheapest Macbook with 64 GB of RAM is the Macbook Pro M4 Max with 40-core GPU, which starts at $3,899, a.k.a. more than five times more expensive than the price quoted above.
	▲	seanmcdirmid 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		if you are going for 64GB, you need at least a Max CPU or you will be bandwidth/GPU limited.