8gb was standard not that long ago and was just fine for most people.

bubblewand 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s great if you run max two “web apps” at a time. More, and it’s heading into “may be a problem” territory.

I’ve seen a Gmail tab eat 2.5Gb of memory all on its own… just sitting there. And you need some headroom for content and file caching and such to keep things feeling snappy.

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ezfe 4 hours ago | parent [-]

cache uses whatever you have

	▲	redeeman 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		im sure that gmail tab is just casually caching gigabytes of email, just in case the user opens it.

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regularfry 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm still working on an 8GB M1 Pro. It's just about ok. VS Code plus podman plus Teams plus Slack plus Firefox and it hits the limits; usually Slack is the thing to get killed.

	▲	cestith 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m on a 16GB M1 Pro. Slack, Zoom, then browser tabs for Jira, PagerDuty, GMail, Confluence, and a Google doc and it’s swapping like mad. It’s that fast SSD and the integrated memory, so it swaps quickly. Swapping is still swapping though.