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slopinthebag | on: It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
MacBooks don't need as much ram - I have an m1 air with 8gb of ram and it's perfectly serviceable, I can even run IntelliJ on it...
cromka | parent | next
I never run out of memory on macoOS on my M1 Air 16GB. Now that I use Asahi on it, I had plenty of OoM crashes.

macOS is really good at memory management, including the compression and offloading to the fast SSD.

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mixmastamyk | parent
Compared to what? Not really true, and hard on the swap drive. Penny-wise meet pound.
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