GPU also is gonna use that memory since it's unified. I want to keep the laptop for at least 5 yearsĢ. Despite the architecture and the memory/ssd works fast, for me and my personal uses it wasn't enough, it's good, really good, but not that magical, I had more Swap use than expected and if it was already happening, given two facts:ġ.

but I decided to give a try the 16GB model trying to see if it would be able to hold up. Kinda same boat as my usual workloads involve 12-20GB between VMs, VSCode (with JS and Go), FF with tons of tabs, Spotify, Teams, Outlook, etc. If you don't want to pay that much, get the Macbook Air instead with 16GB. Some people prefer to pay less and change, personally, I don't like to change my things, so to each their own. I got the Max instead of Pro because the price difference is really marginal ($200) and it gives me a bit more GPU and mostly the support for 4 external screens. I also took AppleCare+ that you can keep for as long you have the machine (you pay yearly) so that should help down the line. It's hard to forecast what will happen in the future, but I think I can get 10 years out of this machine. Yeah, I threw every I had at it, all open at the same time.

Just got the machine, I tried to fill out the RAM and it's simply impossible, at least with the software, virtual machines, and games I currently have. Considering that, I decided to get the M1 Max 24c with 32GB. I should be good to keep that laptop as my main machine for at least 5 years, but probably more. Anyway, I did more testing and that chip (M1 Pro) is crazy fast, like 10 times faster at least than my Haswell Xeon workstation. It might be due to the memory leak, you can read about it. I had the M1 Pro 16GB and from time to time I was filling up the RAM and things were slowing down.

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