Macbook air with 8gb for web development?

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ADamCarraway2021-10-12 22:54:59

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ADamCarraway, 2021-10-12 22:54:59

Has anyone worked with a macbook air 13 m1 8gb? Do you need 8 GB? I wanted to take this laptop, but I'm afraid that there will not be enough RAM (there is no money for 16GB). Usually when I work, I have open: phpstorm, browser, slack, telegram, local server.

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Ronald McDonald, 2021-10-12
@Zoominger

Enough for the eyes. RAM in MacBooks is not an indicator, people work at 4 GB without problems.
Especially on M1.

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LamerFromSpace, 2021-10-12
@LamerFromSpace

I have a browser with ~ 30 tabs constantly open on my M1 8gb, telegram, vscode and a second 4k screen - everything is smooth and without brakes.
I have owned it since December 2020, so far there are no complaints at all, only delight

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Peter Bishop, 2021-10-13
@Peter_Bishop

No, eight are not enough for m1, now Xcode, Slack + figma is open, the latter periodically reboots and swears that there is not enough memory.

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Roman Kerimov, 2021-10-14
@RomanKerimov

Save on RAM is not worth it. I wouldn’t save on an SSD either, but it’s better to save on it than on RAM