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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
8GB of RAM on apple silicon is more than enough. You’re comparing apples to oranges (literally) macOS is far far more efficient than windows and basically has no overhead.

I used an m1 Mac Pro as my work daily driver (IT engineer at a small MSP) and I never ever saw any real slow downs with only 8GB of RAM. Unless I was using an app poorly optimised for ARM.

Granted in a couple years this might be a different story…
gpt
&gt;macOS is far far more efficient than windows and basically has no overhead.

What does overhead in this context even mean? It's not like Windows will claim 100 MB of RAM for every application you start.

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&gt;I never ever saw any real slow downs with only 8GB of RAM. Unless I was using an app poorly optimised for ARM.

"I never saw any slow downs except when I did"

Also your work flow most likely didn't involve many heavy loads. If you want to edit photos or videos, run any VMs or game on that thing 8 GB shared between CPU and GPU will be gone fast.