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User profile for user: nikhil_j2se
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I am confused between these two :
Macbook Air M1 with default 8gb RAM runs … - Apple Community
https://medium.com/@raviyasas/macbook-air-m1-2020-impressions-after-6-months-37cfd72dadec
Many complains that this macbook is not even capable of playing videos.
And the other claims that its working like a charm even with heavy software running simultaneously.
Help me to decide, should I buy macbook M1 8GB.
I will do exactly same work that the guy in the medium blog is doing.
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
Posted on Mar 10, 2022 10:18 PM
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User profile for user: John Galt
John Galt
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Mar 11, 2022 6:02 AM in response to nikhil_j2se
Many Chrome tabs, a few instances of IntelliJ IDEA with up and running Spring Boot services, VS Code with Angular up and running, Postman, PostgreSQL server, Redis server, and a few Docker instances.
I am sure there are many of us working with these.
I am sure there are. Ask Ravi Yasas or one of his 46 followers.
The fact is that if Apple were able to accomplish what they did with anything Intel has to offer, I doubt they would have invested many billions of dollars developing their own CPU.
I really don't understand the point of your question.
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John Galt
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Mar 11, 2022 3:36 AM in response to nikhil_j2se
None of my MBA M1 models have had any trouble playing videos or doing anything else.
The ASC Discussion you referred to is over a year old and lacks sufficient detail to determine what the problem may have been. Several significant macOS updates have been released during that time.
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nikhil_j2se Author
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Mar 11, 2022 3:56 AM in response to John Galt
Alright so lets forget about that ASC.
Can you provide a memory insight/dump while running these exactly software simultaneously.
Many Chrome tabs, a few instances of IntelliJ IDEA with up and running Spring Boot services, VS Code with Angular up and running, Postman, PostgreSQL server, Redis server, and a few Docker instances.
I am sure there are many of us working with these.
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woodmeister50
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Mar 11, 2022 5:06 AM in response to nikhil_j2se
The primary question would be what type of software development are you doing or planning to do?
Does the final product need to be cross platform?
Are you doing development for desktop and laptop computers and mobile devices?
Or when you say software are you planning to do web development?
What programming language or languages do you intend to work with?
As far as problematic apps, many are not only problems just M1s but any macOS Monterey Macs and many of the developers are slow to address those issues on the Mac platform.
With that said, I have been using my M1 MacBook Air for embedded processor development with the STMicro STM32F7xx series with Free RTOS and currently Microsoft Azure Threads RTOS and its associated packages for network/web and file systems and Touch LCD graphics and the work with the M! MacBook Air even with just 8GB of RAM works very well. The work has also involved some web development with HTML and javascript and have seen little issue.
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nikhil_j2se Author
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Mar 11, 2022 5:27 AM in response to woodmeister50
The primary question would be what type of software development are you doing or planning to do?
Agree, seems like I cant edit my question so putting it here :
Many Chrome tabs, a few instances of IntelliJ IDEA with up and running Spring Boot services, VS Code with Angular up and running, Postman, PostgreSQL server, Redis server, and a few Docker instances.
these are some of the main tools I work with.
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nikhil_j2se Author
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Mar 11, 2022 10:41 AM in response to John Galt
I am sure there are. Ask Ravi Yasas or one of his 46 followerd
I already did, and waiting for answer from there as well :)
I really don't understand the point of your question
And I thought it was fairly simple :)
Lets try again,
Well, I just need help from the community to decide me, if MBA M1 8GB
Is good enough according to the shared requirement or I must go for 16 GB.
I read blogs, youtube, many material and found kind of 50-50 reviews so decided to ask directly on apple community.
I am sure this is why this discussion board made for.
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John Galt
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Mar 11, 2022 2:01 PM in response to nikhil_j2se
Well, I just need help from the community to decide me, if MBA M1 8GB
Is good enough according to the shared requirement or I must go for 16 GB.
The answer to that question is no. 8 GB is good enough.
What you must decide for yourself is whether "good enough" is "good enough" for your needs, for the life of that machine. The configuration you decide upon must be adequate to perform the work you described, as well as for future needs that are literally impossible for anyone to predict.
In the history of Macs I am unaware of even one report from anyone who wished they had purchased less memory than they did.
You should now have enough information to make your own decision.
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ku4hx
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Mar 11, 2022 3:59 AM in response to nikhil_j2se
"I am sure there are many of us working with these."
Then maybe your best bet as to seek assistance from user's groups dedicated to the product or products.
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nikhil_j2se Author
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Mar 11, 2022 4:17 AM in response to ku4hx
Well, I am agree with you but they all come from different vendors. But they all have one product in common, 'Macbook air M1'
correct me if I am not asking it in the good place.
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