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greyhair on Nov 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?

Unless you are doing some crazy synthesis or simulation, 32GB is plenty.

Maybe editing 4K (or in the future, 8K) video might need more?

My brother does a lot of complex thermal airflow simulation, and his workstation has 192GB of RAM, but that is an extreme use case.

threeseed on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

8GB MacBook Air can easily handle 4K.

And it can handle 8K for 1-2 streams and starts to lag at 4+.

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