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Do you really need more than 8GB of Ram on a 13in MacBook Air? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Da_Droid_Mechanic@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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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.

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[–] lossofimagination11@alien.top 1 points 2 years 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.

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.