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		elaus on May 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple introduces M4 chip But why did you configure 3 machines with 64+ GB, if 8 GB RAM are "100% perfectly fine" for typical work tasks? For me personally 16 or 32 GB are perfectly fine, 8 GB was too little (even without VMs) and I've never needed 64 or more. So it's curious to see you are pretty much exactly the opposite.

joshmanders on May 7, 2024 [–]

> But why did you configure 3 machines with 64+ GB, if 8 GB RAM are "100% perfectly fine" for typical work tasks?

Did you miss this part prefixing that sentence?

> I can't run a lot of VMs or compile giant projects with 10 threads, of course

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