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That said, M4 better start with 12GB minimum.
Unless the only thing you do is have no more 1-5 tabs open at once on browser and do VERY light office work.
if that's the case just grab a m1 MacBook for way cheaper
However I will say if you plan to do any video editing with h265 codec m3 chips can decode and encode which is way faster. But I would still suggest a 16gb for creative work
I can have like 30 tabs of youtube, ChatGPT, run 50 epochs on large data sets so you're wrong here unfortunately.
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Besides that, my m3 is lighting fast, able to handle multiple tabs, excel, powerpoint, obsidian, pyCharm, my terminal and some youTube videos without a single performance issue.
I also work with kaggle data sets and was surprised how well I was able to train a model on this light laptop. If your tasks are heavier than what I described I recommend a desktop you virtual machine to with a cheaper laptop.
That's a problem with chrome and how it uses ram. I have the same issues with it on both macOS and windows. Try the same thing with safari and I bet you won't have issues.
I remember when the 8GB m1 mini came out and I bought one. I was absolutely crucified and continously down voted on here for saying that 8GB was not enough and it was coming to a crawl and crashing and when I bought a 16GB it ran perfectly. People believed random articles over real world experience. Bunch of lemmings! 😅
thanks.
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Agree.