I have an Intel Mac with 16GiB of RAM.
It's starting to feel it's age; there's always the browser, which reported itself as using over 13GiB on it's own at times, the system using 9GiB of swap.
Zoom, lang-servers, docker containers, compilers.
It's quite alot I guess, so that's good, but the swapping in particular causes the cpu to struggle a bit. Company's in cost-cutting mode, so I think I probably won't get an upgrade in the forseeable future; envious of those with an M-series, and really want 32GiB+ RAM
I can tell you that from a "performance for a given amount of physical RAM" perspective, Intel-based and Apple Silicon Macs are from different worlds. Even if you upgraded to a 2021 MacBook Air M1, you would be gobsmacked by the difference.
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I have an Intel Mac with 16GiB of RAM. It's starting to feel it's age; there's always the browser, which reported itself as using over 13GiB on it's own at times, the system using 9GiB of swap. Zoom, lang-servers, docker containers, compilers.
It's quite alot I guess, so that's good, but the swapping in particular causes the cpu to struggle a bit. Company's in cost-cutting mode, so I think I probably won't get an upgrade in the forseeable future; envious of those with an M-series, and really want 32GiB+ RAM
I can tell you that from a "performance for a given amount of physical RAM" perspective, Intel-based and Apple Silicon Macs are from different worlds. Even if you upgraded to a 2021 MacBook Air M1, you would be gobsmacked by the difference.
True. It will be massive performance gain to go from Intel Macbook Pro to currently available M2/M3 air.