I'm not sure what possessed you to get an 8gb machine when you're a graphic designer. I would return it if you still can and get one with 16gb, or the M3 Pro that comes with 18gb.
Huge discount and desire for macos, apps on macos like keynote way better, didn't want used MacBook m1 for 1.5k even if it's 16gbI'm not sure what possessed you to get an 8gb machine when you're a graphic designer. I would return it if you still can and get one with 16gb, or the M3 Pro that comes with 18gb.
I think 64 GB is sufficient for heavy 3d work, I'm not even tiny close to being that heavy. I don't use photoshop a lot, only for mockups. My main thing is illustrator which at largest files, uses 2-3gb of ramThis is insane overkill. I do heavy graphics work in Photoshop with 100+ layers/multiple huge files open and I never break 32 GB RAM. The only exception is once I start dumping stuff into Premiere Pro, it'll get close.
of course but the context is your work. anyways going back to the topic, you should be ok. modern drives are rated for 300 tb writes per 500gb of space. in practice, they’ll last much longer. even old drives from the early 2010s could do a couple petabytes despite being rated for only 75 tb (technically that was 2D mlc nand vs 3d tlc today but should be close)I think 64 GB is sufficient for heavy 3d work, I'm not even tiny close to being that heavy. I don't use photoshop a lot, only for mockups. My main thing is illustrator which at largest files, uses 2-3gb of ram
Yeah, to he honest, I owned many laptops, mainly equiped with hdd and non failed expect my pc hdd which I replaced. Many say that SSD don't know to fail. Also, it seems that this writes happen even in 18gb versions. I guess macos as a system is designed to use ssd or ram as much as it can as opposed to pc.of course but the context is your work. anyways going back to the topic, you should be ok. modern drives are rated for 300 tb writes per 500gb of space. in practice, they’ll last much longer. even old drives from the early 2010s could do a couple petabytes despite being rated for only 75 tb (technically that was 2D mlc nand vs 3d tlc today but should be close)
That's very odd. Are you using something like iStat Menus to monitor swap?
My previous base M1 MB Air with 8GB of RAM, the swap file was never 0 and I never used RAM intensive apps like Illustrator or Photoshop. I have serious doubts that your swap file is almost always 0.
So you used up 1% of the drive's life in half a year. At that rate, the SSD will be dead in "only" 50 years.I've always had issues on my Macs about what look to be Kernel writing.
My Macbook Pro M3 that I bought at Thanksgiving is already up to 50TBW per the DriveDX. DriveDX also says I still have 99% of life left.