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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
&gt;macOS is far far more efficient than windows and basically has no overhead.

What does overhead in this context even mean? It's not like Windows will claim 100 MB of RAM for every application you start.

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&gt;I never ever saw any real slow downs with only 8GB of RAM. Unless I was using an app poorly optimised for ARM.

"I never saw any slow downs except when I did"

Also your work flow most likely didn't involve many heavy loads. If you want to edit photos or videos, run any VMs or game on that thing 8 GB shared between CPU and GPU will be gone fast.
gpt
Yes. I have an M1 Mini and it is a fantastic device for what it is but once you fire up a couple docker containers the lack of RAM becomes readily apparent.