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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 5 months ago by sverit@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Software and AI development would be hard with 8gb of RAM on Linux. Having you seen the memes on AI adding to global climate change? Not even Linux can fix the issues with ChatGPT...

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

I don't think anyone anywhere is claiming 8GB RAM is enough for software and AI development. Pretty sure we're talking about consumer-grade hardware here. And low-end at that.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The lede by OP here contains this:

[...] addition to Xcode 16 [...] is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won’t be able to use it

So either RecluseRamble meant that development with a feature like predictive code completion would work on 8 GB of RAM if you were using Linux or his comparison was shit.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's absolutely what I'm saying. Apple is just holding back that feature for upselling (as always) and because it's hardly possible to debloat macOS.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

Okay good, thanks for confirming. I remember Kate feeling very nice to use during my studies, more responsive than VS Code or Eclipse. But I also had 16Gigabytes of RAM, so I couldn't be sure.

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