There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won’t be able to use it. There’s a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it’s the closest thing we’ll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn’t really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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    4 months ago

    Yes, you wouldn’t have 4K in 2002.

    4GB today is nothing.

    My normal usage would be kinda strained with it, but possible.

    $ free -h
                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:            17Gi       3,1Gi        11Gi       322Mi       3,0Gi        14Gi
    Swap:          2,0Gi          0B       2,0Gi
    $