Choosing internal memory: why is 32gb so unpopular?

[Alpha Centauri]

i actually bought it for a friend who lives in spain, unfortunately the shipping didn't work out and i had to return it.

Pity. If it landed in DE it would have landed with import tax + 19% sales tax added.

Anecdotally, fully specced MBPs in the late 2000s were so expensive in Australia (conversly cheap in the US), that one could have purchased a return flight to the US, bought the same machine and still had spending money for this purchase holiday spree.

 

[astorre]

I keep my devices pretty long, so that extra 400€ in span of years wont matter. Bought 14 1TB 32GB right after launch, 3000€ ''no ragrets''

 

[Tagbert]

- That's likely it, but considering where things are going with electron apps...

- That's the issue for me. I need to run emulation at times and a DAW with many plugins.

Then that is why 32GB of RAM is probably right for you and why it is overkill (and expensive) for most other people. I’m not sure what metric you are using for “popularity” but I would guess that most Mac users don’t run the kind of apps that use a lot of monolithic memory like that.

 

[mansplains]

That's the issue for me. I need to run emulation at times and a DAW with many plugins.

Depending on the DAW and plugins you may be fine. I think unified memory runs better than traditional, and my M1 MBP does better with less memory than my prior 2019 27" iMac. I went from 24GB in the iMac to 16GB on the MBP. I bounce between Live, Logic, Maschine, and Nuendo. Maschine is the most recent to be AS native, but even the rosetta version ran fine. I run a good deal of Kontakt libraries (known to be resource hogs) as well as Komplete, Output, Arturia V9, etc. I have yet to hit a ceiling, and I have yet to hear the fans kick in on the computer.