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Same question here, except I disagree with all the discussion on other threads about "wow, 16gb RAM is magically sufficient for most use cases." I'm sure it is now sufficient for web browsing + IDE + Slack, but what about anything beyond that?

I realize 16gb RAM goes farther on M1 vs before, but some things just need RAM and there is no way around it. If i'm running a VM or multiple VMs (e.g., for android app development), or multiple docker containers -- I just need more RAM.

I'm hoping that the upcoming 16" MBP upgrade offers more RAM tiers.



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