Hey! I’m looking to upgrade my personal laptop to MBP M1 chip. However one of the biggest things I keep debating between is the 8GB and the 16GB of ram. My workflow is basically standard print, branding and photo stuff. I don’t do any motion or video work personally. Anyone have any recs on which amount of RAM would work out best?

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16 if you want it to last a while.

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If you can afford 16GB RAM agree it will make it last longer. You can buy small and fast SSDs to connect for more storage.

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16 all the way. It facilitates running multiple larger pieces of software simultaneously, which is a game changer. Get the 16 and SSD.

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Always go bigger. You never regret getting more, you always regret not getting enough.

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16 or nothing, you can’t upgrade later.

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Always buy the most that you can afford. Spend more now so you won’t have regrets later.

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16. But I’d also really think about the M1 versus intel for this first release. Lots of software developing that needs to happen and lots of bugs. You’ll essentially be a beta tester in some aspects.

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Thank you everyone! This was exactly the unanimous advice for the 16GB I needed to hear! I had budgeted for it and 500GB of storage space (considering I offload a lot to backup drives) so this was really helpful!

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16 GB hands down

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