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The M1 also means that Apple regains full stack control of its desktops and laptops. Their phones and tablets prove that when they develop both the main chips and operating systems themselves, they are able to eke out greater performance from lesser specs.

Flagship iPhones always have less ram than flagship androids, but match or exceed their performance.

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That may help a bit but unless they adopt that draconian policies that govern iOS runtime that impact is limited. Safari is an example of improved battery life when Apple owns the stack. It’s a great feature, but not a game changer.

Most business users were fine with 4GB 5-6 years ago. Electron apps like Teams and Slack pushed it up to 8. The next tier are folks with IDEs, docker, etc that are usually 16-32GB.

I agree. Honestly electron used the main thing pushing up ram usage these days for most people.

It's the Gigabyte Myth! Less is more! Up is down! In is out!