Still reported, yes, but less frequently than first, suggesting something may have been done behind the scenes to partially address issues, who knows.Must not forget this is in essence the ‘early adopter’ product of a completely new line. Personally, as good as the M1 is for what it is right now, I don’t think it will age very well.

are reporting it is very rare for them to need more than 8GB, so I would really only spend the extra money for 16GB at this point if that is the kind of workload you plan on putting on the system or if you plan on keeping it really long term. People using these M1 Macs for heavy video editing, etc. Different memory, shorter lines between memory/CPU/GPU, etc. As you say yourself, it’s a different OS.

16GB equivalent, that is what the users themselves are reporting in everyday use.

I don’t know about you, but in my case if I keep a computer longer than 2 years, I consider it long. Reports of it happening have gone down and even then, in the worst cases where it was reported, it was calculated the lifespan of the SSD would be reduced to… 5 years. The memory swapping issue is also extremely exaggerated. The next version of MacOS is also getting support for the latest Radeon cards, which raises questions if Apple is possibly going to use them… or make the use of EGPU’s possible again with the M1X chips. The leaked benchmarks of these have them at twice the performance of the M1 chip and there might even be versions coming out with dedicated graphic cards. There’s a chance this will happen as soon as June, but more likely October. If you want better performance, you could also wait for the M1X Macs to release. Do remember, in the end, it’s still integrated graphics, so don’t expect miracles, but as far as integrated graphics go, it is far superior than anything Intel or AMD currently have on the market. Running it on lower resolutions should be smooth as butter. open at the same time are sitting at around 4 - 5 GB of ram usage, so even with the 8GB, there is still plenty of overhead remaining.Īs for the performance, I’ll tell you tomorrow, but from my research, with a bit of tweaking, WOW should run smoothly on a 3440 -1440 screen, with people saying they have it running stable on this resolution on an M1 at 60Hz, also in raids, with a bit of settings tweaking (main thing being turning down shadows and water detail, seem to make a huge difference while leaving the other settings maxed out). People are reporting that the M1 Macs, while running WoW and having browser windows, etc. The 16GB at this point is only worth it if you are running very intense workloads, like graphic design rendering, etc. The 8GB of ram on the M1 chip is equivalent, if not more than 16GB on an Intel based system. It can’t be compared to the ram on intel systems as it’s a system on a chip. Currently running on an Intel mini with EGPU.

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