<story><title>Apple has a memory problem and we&apos;re all paying for it</title><url>https://www.macworld.com/article/2130071/m3-macbook-pro-8gb-memory-too-little.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Osiris</author><text>When I started my current job they gave me an M1 Mac with 8GB because it’s what they had on hand.
 I could barely run my IDE and a web browser. At least 1GB was for video memory, and it was swapping constantly.
I couldn’t run docker containers because of how much input lag I would get.
8GB is barely usable and shouldn’t even be an option for a Pro machine.&lt;p&gt;I used it for a week before switching to a personal desktop with 64GB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al_borland</author><text>Did the company have various agents and other things installed? My company installs so much garbage on systems that they can make anything suck. Any time I have issues, it has nothing to do with what I&amp;#x27;m trying to do, and has everything to do with the monitoring&amp;#x2F;management software. Windows, MacOS, more ram, less ram, doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter. They&amp;#x27;ve found ways to destroy every system ever deployed.&lt;p&gt;My M1 MacBook Pro has actually handled it the best. My old Intel MacBook Pro would constantly be ramping up the fans, at one point burning through the whole battery in less than an hour if I unplugged it. No such issues with the M1 so far. There are still issues, but mostly crashes, not performance issues, which is a first in nearly 18 years of various desktops and laptops at the company.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple has a memory problem and we&apos;re all paying for it</title><url>https://www.macworld.com/article/2130071/m3-macbook-pro-8gb-memory-too-little.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Osiris</author><text>When I started my current job they gave me an M1 Mac with 8GB because it’s what they had on hand.
 I could barely run my IDE and a web browser. At least 1GB was for video memory, and it was swapping constantly.
I couldn’t run docker containers because of how much input lag I would get.
8GB is barely usable and shouldn’t even be an option for a Pro machine.&lt;p&gt;I used it for a week before switching to a personal desktop with 64GB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ge96</author><text>What kind of comparison is that 8 to 64. 8 GB for windows also sucks as well or Linux (save with tiling manager), software just bloats over time.&lt;p&gt;Imo 8gb is not enough as baseline, today&amp;#x27;s 8gb is 16.&lt;p&gt;I remember 4GB being good in 2015.</text></comment>