I’ll paste my other comment:

I recorded my band’s whole album in Logic on a base model M1 Air and never once noticed a slowdown or lag or it swapping to disk or whatever. And usually I’d have a few Safari tabs open in the background while I did it.

Would I complain if I had 16 GB of memory? Nope, but I also don’t feel the need to complain about 8 because it literally hasn’t affected me, even when doing more than browsing Reddit or watching videos.

I think maybe people don’t realize that even if it is swapping RAM to disk, it happens so fast that it doesn’t matter. Or maybe they don’t realize that apps will just use free RAM and not aggressively garbage collect if you have the available RAM. Or maybe they’re coming from OSs that don’t handle 8GB well.

To me and what I do, I literally wouldn’t notice a difference if I had 16GB, but people are acting like they can’t even browse the internet on 8 when I’ve done more than most people do on computers with 8.

Sure, give me more, or don’t, idc. I doubt I’d get this performance out of a Windows machine of this size running ProTools on 16GB.

I recorded my band’s whole album in Logic on a base model M1 Air and never once noticed a slowdown or lag or it swapping to disk or whatever. And usually I’d have a few Safari tabs open in the background while I did it.

Would I complain if I had 16 GB of memory? Nope, but I also don’t feel the need to complain about 8 because it literally hasn’t affected me, even when doing more than browsing Reddit or watching videos.