32GB max memory is ludicrous today. We've regressed as a technological society.

lynndotpy 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Did you know Moore had two not-as-famous cousins with their own laws? Sam and Leslie.

Sam predicted price-per-transistor-per-square-inch density would asymptote, while Leslie predicted it would level off and then regress.

Leslie's Law is in full effect, it seems.

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bigyabai 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a fairly realistic lower-bound for professional macOS work, if you don't want to thrash the SSD with zram writes.

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asdff 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you find yourself loading that much stuff in memory you probably need to offshore your compute

	▲	bigyabai 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As the saying goes, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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foldr 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aside from running local LLMs (which is tight on 32GB anyway), what on Earth are people doing that requires 32GB as a bare minimum? I have 24GB on my current MacBook Pro and never find myself limited by it. My work MacBook Pro has 16GB, and that is occasionally a bit tight. However, that's largely because the stingy 512GB SSD quickly fills up, leaving no room for swap, not because I really need more RAM as such.

That said, I don't believe that SSDs can feel pain, so I am quite happy for the OS to thrash them as much as necessary. The fear of SSD failure is massively overblown IMO.