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.

  • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    3 months ago

    For who? My mother who only use facebook, youtube and googling don’t need 8gb

    • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      I don’t know what Xcode is so yeah, I haven’t been found wanting with my 8GB M2. Videos, downloading, web browsing, writing, chat applications, some photo editing, games (what I can actually play on a Mac, anyway), all good here.

      16GB+ is obviously going to be necessary though, and not exactly that expensive to put into their base models so it should be put in soon.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I had a laptop with 8GB. Doing one of those things was fine, but when you open up another program it takes forever to switch to the browser

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        And then you have to activate linux app support for a thing she needs and can not do with chromebook and suddenly it is more complicated than macOS?