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The screen looks great but I feel like there is just not enough RAM. 8GB is what I had in the Macbook
Air in 2012. Now with 16GB on a mini PC I just need to edit a few photos in Lightroom and the RAM is full, on the desktop 32GB is just enough to run lightroom and a bigger edit in Photoshop or an image stacker.
I feel like there is no point to the speed of the M1 if you can't run any apps that need that. At that price you probably would want to keep the machine for a couple of years but it's already underpowered now.I did think that the memory looked stingy. But I guess the litmus test for these models is can it run Email, Safari, Photos, Spotify or whatever & Calendar concurrently without grinding to a halt. They aren't workstations for image processing and they aren't targeted for people who need to do that. They are more 'iPads with keyboards and windowing' that run a bunch of apps that wouldn't be expected to consume the whole system in normal use.
Howard-
I have the M1 MBP and I'm running:
- Outlook
- Teams (chat & constant calls)
- Chrome (second teams instance)
- Powerpoint (multiple)
- Excel (multiple)
- Word
- Safari (forum + multiple other tabs)
- Slack
- Messages
- Sonos controller
I have these across 4 desktops on a 49" 5120 x 1440 monitor.
Everything is silky smooth.
- Outlook
Soul
The screen looks great but I feel like there is just not enough RAM. 8GB is what I had in the Macbook
Air in 2012. Now with 16GB on a mini PC I just need to edit a few photos in Lightroom and the RAM is full, on the desktop 32GB is just enough to run lightroom and a bigger edit in Photoshop or an image stacker.
I feel like there is no point to the speed of the M1 if you can't run any apps that need that. At that price you probably would want to keep the machine for a couple of years but it's already underpowered now.