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For me on windows, multiple virtual desktops, browser (chrome for work, ff for personal) IDE's and VMs (ubuntu running in wsl, and any docker containers) made 16gn unuseable for me

And that's before I decided to boot up a game with all of the existing applications

For me the £50 is well worth not having to care about pruning applications constantly!



I recently got introduced to great suspender here and Chrome with separate accounts doesn't use much resources because tabs get backgrounded.

Yes, you would still have to juggle if you really dont want to close your IDE, or lower judge how much RAM that docker container really needd, but also understand that OS’ and software allocate a huge portion of all available memory no matter what you have in the machine. Like you think you need 32gb for snappy performance and it is rational idea that all your processes absolutely need sequential memory blocks, but it isnt that true.

I honestly think you would just be smarter about your use of resources again.

With these benchmarks I am starting to lean more towards 32gb itself being the compromise. Simply because it doesnt cause you to budget resources, a luxury, but at the expense of these other benchmarks? And in the worst case we just have to wait a year or two before 32gb is offered in the M series package?


I wonder if they have improved their memory compression with this new release as well. Would have compare apples to apples for various applications to see the effect.




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