Hey,
I'm having a hard time deciding between 8gb and 16gb for the m1 Mac mini. I work on an iOS project that has around 2000 files. Yeah 16gb should be a no brainer but I have a constraint. I live in Brasil, everything has a 97% tax on it after currency conversion, so the base MacMini starts at 8699,00 and goes to 11699,00.
My biggest issue currently is that my current 15' 2017 i7 16gb MacBook Pro gets unusable when I switch branches on git (due to reindexing) or if I change a file that is referenced in many places, causing a big recompile. Not only it gets unusable but it takes 3+ minutes to do so.
Some considerations are:
If there is anyone who had experience with the new M1 Macs and 2000 files Xcode projects.... I'm going crazy trying to decide :'(
I'm having a hard time deciding between 8gb and 16gb for the m1 Mac mini. I work on an iOS project that has around 2000 files. Yeah 16gb should be a no brainer but I have a constraint. I live in Brasil, everything has a 97% tax on it after currency conversion, so the base MacMini starts at 8699,00 and goes to 11699,00.
My biggest issue currently is that my current 15' 2017 i7 16gb MacBook Pro gets unusable when I switch branches on git (due to reindexing) or if I change a file that is referenced in many places, causing a big recompile. Not only it gets unusable but it takes 3+ minutes to do so.
Some considerations are:
- If I open the Xcode project it sits around 2,25 Gb of ram after running it.
- I sometimes need to pair program so I would be screen sharing.
- My 15' MacBook Pro is from my company, so I will be keeping it and I will be offloading anything else on it. Slack, Trello, Jira, Word, Mail and so on. The Mac mini will exclusively run Xcode and git, occasionally VSCode, but never at the same time.
- I run the app on my device.
- I plan to sell this MacMini or give it to my wife as soon as new, better one, is released.
If there is anyone who had experience with the new M1 Macs and 2000 files Xcode projects.... I'm going crazy trying to decide :'(