How much RAM do you ACTUALLY need in your Macbook?

How much RAM in a Macbook M1 do you really need? Is it worth it to overpay? Today we will tell you about how much RAM the MacBook M1 has, and how much you will actually use in 2022! Watch the video until the end to find out!

#macbook #m1 #apple

[tomlee]

The analogy I always give to people is. RAM is like a table you use for work or dinner, etc etc. You want to have a big enough table where you need to put all of your items on the table, preferrable all the papers you are looking and you can glance at. Having too small of a table means putting them back in your file cabinet or in the kitchen (if the dinner table analogy is used). If you get too much RAM, then it's like having a dinner table, or work space that is so big, you can't fill it up ; no matter how many guests you have or the number of guests/dishes you are serving.

understanding what you need and what you might potentially need is important in the same way people pick out a office table or dinner table.

[christophergonzalez]

In the video you make a statement that is false, RAM IS NOT EXPENSIVE... It is apple who sells it at a high price.

[FoxieDay]

Actually there is a very good reason to get the 16GB model or higher that everybody forgets to mention. Running a virtual machine with Windows. If you need to run windows programs, the extra RAM helps tremendously… if it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t bother.

[VhsssTv]

16 is great for people who work on it.
8 for just fun & work ever so often
32 if you need it you'll know, if you don't know if you'll need it you don't need it .

[Natedoc]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Very informative, saved me money that covered cost of apple care on the MacBook Air I just ordered

[ssarkisian]

The isolated performance tests are pointless when comparing different RAM options. It would be much better to somehow measure sustainable performance with typical creator/developer setup with many apps opened to understand how it could affect your workflow.
I’m usually have Teams, Mail, VSCode, Node, Edge (10 to 20 tabs), Figma, Photoshop, Docker with 1-3 DB images, couple of Terminals, Fork, Spotify, Postman and some local DB instance running, and it’s definitely feels slower and unresponsive on 16 GBs than on 32 GBs (the 8 GBs option will just die in swapping)

[Erin-Thor]

There’s another reason to get more RAM, M1 and M2 Mac’s write exponentially more data to disc as they swap virtual memory. While Apple has mitigated the shorter resulting drive lifetimes of 2 years (SSD’s last 1-2 decades in PC’s) to 5-8 years depending on use, one simple fact remains — More RAM means less swap which means better performance and longer disk life because of the less writes, which all means a longer life for your PC.

[jeromescott]

In 2021 I purchased a 16” M1 Pro MacBook Pro. I went with 16GB because I’m wasn’t doing crazy complex tasks, but I did have to run a VM in Parallels for the first time because Bootcamp wasn’t an option. I also used a docker container to install Azure Data Studio. This resulted in my RAM being overloaded and now I’m upgrading to an M2 Max MacBook Pro less than 2 years later. I really wish people would have considered things like VMs when making RAM recommendations.

[highdesertbiker]

excellent video / editing / advice this is EXACTLY what i was looking for. You have really great content here. I'm surprised you only have 43.2k subs

[rhiantaylor]

A key point to make is that the M1 and associated OS apparently caches to SSD more than Intel-based Macs did and, remember, the SSD is not replaceable and has a high but limited life in terms of write cycles. Unless your use case can live easily within a lower RAM spec, I would always be tempted to pay for the RAM upgrade on a machine I expect to keep for a good while.

[eclbirkeland]

Thank you for mentioning the architecture programs! I have been hoping for a video somewhere that could mention it within the exploration. This was great <3

[Filtersloth]

I routinely use over 50GB of RAM on my M1 Max MacBook Pro. Sometimes more.
Using after effects and premiere pro etc.
I’m really glad I didnt spend all that money on a computer and then skimp on the RAM that it needs.

[spiritguy]

Greatest video on this channel so far! Just what I needed to know with the best analogies and practical demos, this video really goes to show the meaning of RAMs in modern day Macs (and PCs by extension). Keep up the simplified yet detailed good work.

[Ramzes]

I am extremely happy with my 8GB Air, even sometimes using it as desktop pc (connecting it to the monitor, while py PC is on repairs or used by someone else)

[DiscoverHudsonValley]

Very informative video sir, thank you! I have a M1 Pro MacBook Pro with 16gb and doing some pretty heavy lifting in Premiere Pro with out too issues. They only time that it bogs down sometimes is during color correction. Cheers!

[canyukselen]

Great video! Thanks for sharing details. I am using 6-8 MS office files on Mac and Parallel desktop Windows simultaneously. How much RAM is convenient for these type of user?

[ip]

Seems to be 10C/16G with 16 RAM and 512GB is the perfect equilibrium for most tasks on the spectrum, unless you are a really heavy user or a really light one (which 8RAM will work fine)

[videoeventjakarta]

I think the SSD capacity also plays a role on how fast the project can be delivered.

The higher capacity the better, because M chips also use the SSD to store temp memory.

[Nikitafrom]

Thanks for the content, great video, one more moment/large point for consideration -- there are already a lot of AAA games for mac, so asl you can play through parrallels -- and since unified memory is also used for graphics, it's a big difference for gaming

[A-Ti]

Excellent video and well crafted presentation 👌🏼😀 .. thanks for the valuable info Arthur 👍🏼😀 it helped me making my choice on my upcoming purchase