I am going to be purchasing a MacBook in January and have pretty much decided on the 13in Air but do you really need 16GB of ram? It will be used for School Work, Gaming and Photo editing.

  • lossofimagination11BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Another student here. I have the base model M1 Air and I have had 0 issues with the 8gb. I use Teams, Word, Safari, Discord, PyCharm (for my python projects), and even the UTM virtual machine for my linux stuff. I will usually have a good few virtual desktops open aswell so I can navigate to things quickly.

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    Of course it always useful to have 16gb nowadays, but I would only recommend it if you have the extra money - good for future proofing your machine.

  • jjboy91BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep even 16gb is not enough when you work with it For example if you go 8 / 256 let’s say for photo editing macos will be laggy real fast because of the swapping