Mac Mini RAM?

[patriotaki]

Hello,

I decided to purchase the new Mac Mini M1, if you believe that an Intel Mac Mini will be a better choice for me please let me know.

Intended Use:
1) XCode - Native Mobile App Development (Swift 5)
2) PHP WebApps Programming
3) Online Presentations (Google Meet, Zoom, etc)
4) FTP (Looking to run WinSCP somehow on a mac, could not find an FTP Client as good as the WinSCP)
5) Browsing

My second question is should I get the 8GB RAM Version of the 16GB?
thanks

 

[darkpaw]

To future-proof it, get the 16GB RAM if you can afford it.

CyberDuck on the Mac is a good FTP client. I've also used Transmit in the past, but it keeps deleting my favourites, so I've ditched it.

 

[patriotaki]

Dont want to future proof it since its the 1st version of the M1 i believe the M2 and M3 will have much more to offer so ill be upgrading on that

 

[Fishrrman]

Well, if you don't want 16gb, get 8gb instead.
But do so with the awareness that if you find that "8gb isn't enough" -- you CAN'T upgrade it.

Your choice.

 

[patriotaki]

Can you run windows x86 apps on the M1?

 

[Toutou]

My second question is should I get the 8GB RAM Version of the 16GB?

As a dev you should be able to eyeball your RAM requirements. If you use a heavy IDE and test in two browsers, one of them in VM windows and run half of your services in Docker, then 8 gigs is not enough.
If you use SublimeText and run native MySQL server, then it's enough.

Can you run windows x86 apps on the M1?

Yes, through the builtin x86 emulation of ARM Windows that you have to virtualize (Parallels, QEMU or the bare builtin hypervisor).

 

[patriotaki]

As a dev you should be able to eyeball your RAM requirements. If you use a heavy IDE and test in two browsers, one of them in VM windows and run half of your services in Docker, then 8 gigs is not enough.
If you use SublimeText and run native MySQL server, then it's enough.

Yes, through the builtin x86 emulation of ARM Windows that you have to virtualize (Parallels, QEMU or the bare builtin hypervisor).

I mostly use XAMP or MAMP for local installation but most of the time
The heaviest thing i do is XCode, iOS app with lots of storyboards which sometimes can feel a bit laggy on my mbp 13inch 2018 model