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There are workloads that don't fit into 16G ram. Even with paging, there are legitimate needs for 32G and beyond memory sizes.

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What specific workloads? If you bought a 16GB machine to keep 32GB of data in RAM then clearly you bought the wrong machine. But I am able to run WAY more applications in 8GB than the 16GB intel Mac I had previously.

> But I am able to run WAY more applications in 8GB than the 16GB intel Mac I had previously.

Then your limitation clearly wasn’t RAM.

Memory management is different on the M1. This has been widely discussed.

"management" is important.

It can't make it appear out of thin air. If you need 16GB of ram and only have 8GB, you will run out of memory.

Which is why I asked for specific workloads in the comment you decided to reply to. I also say in the same comment this very thing you are reiterating...

It can swap to ssd real fast.

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