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with just 8gb of ram it turns into a paperweight opening too many programs.

At least 16GB in this day and age

Reason why I returned mine.

Especially with Monterey memory leak issues.

I see people say this all the time, but I'm here doing just fine with 8GB on my M1 Mini. I often have multiple Chrome tabs open, Firefox, GarageBand, GIMP, Word/Excel/PowerPoint, etc. all open with no hit on performance that I can perceive. 8GB is just fine for a ton of consumers.

They only sell 8GB unified RAM version, though... If the difference to the 16GB wasn't that much, I would have bought a Mini already. Hoping for an updated version soon, maybe with 16GB RAM as starting point in 2022.

Tbh I don’t really see how they can improve the current mini , ok 32 gigs ram ( never gonna happen ) and an sd card slot , ok maybe 4 thunderbolt ports too and …

Ignore the first part of this stupid post , there’s loads of ways they could improve it 😂

with just 8gb of ram it turns into a paperweight opening too many programs.

At least 16GB in this day and age

Reason why I returned mine.

Especially with Monterey memory leak issues.

Hell, I'm typing this on an 8 GB 2014 Core i5 Mac mini (with SSD, running Monterey). I will likely replace it with a 16 GB 2022 M2 / Mx Pro Mac mini, but that ancient 8 GB Intel machine works fine running Safari (multiple tabs), Messages, Music, Apple TV+, Pages, and Citrix VPN, etc. 8 GB is good enough for most mainstream users. In fact, I bought two older Mac laptops for my wife and daughter last year, both with 8 GB. 8 GB is great for both of them.

While for some 16 GB is beneficial, for a large chunk of the market, 8 GB is fine.

BTW, my 2017 MacBook is 16 GB, and back then 16 GB would occasionally be useful to me, when I was traveling for business. However, these days my usage patterns have changed so it's just for light usage. In that context 16 GB is overkill, 5 years later.

I am one of that big chunk.

I joined this site years ago, but my Apple products were limited to phones and iPads. I was a long time PC user.

The M1 Mac Mini was my first foray into a Mac. I figured it would be a cheap way to check it out, but my PC would be my main computer.

Within a month it became my primary computer. A couple of months later, my PC was in the closet. This thing easily and efficiently runs everything I throw at it. Well, except for games. It’s definitely not it’s forte. But other than running Flight Simulator, I can do everything I used my high powered PC with more Ram to do.

They only sell 8GB unified RAM version, though... If the difference to the 16GB wasn't that much, I would have bought a Mini already. Hoping for an updated version soon, maybe with 16GB RAM as starting point in 2022.

Mac M1 with only 8GB RAM it's aimed at grandparents who only browse the web and need e-mail and FaceTime, with some decent power so their visiting grandkids could run their games and edit family videos.