I have to say that I am impressed with it. I do think the 16GB RAM version is worth getting though. I may sell this one and get a 16 GB version yet. I am using a lot of swap that I never did before on my old Intel Mini with its 16GB of RAM, and I am using this one the same way, perhaps a bit less use considering that I am now offloading some processing to a different machine that I was doing all on the old Intel Mini. Time will tell of course, but IMO this is a sign of good things to come from Apple in the future.
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Now that I have had a few days with my new M1 Mini...
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I would if they had one available in store. I have to order one if I want 16GB.
Based on reports, it won’t help at all with swap. The SSDs on the 8GB and 16GB are being chewed up pretty equally from what I’m reading.
The problem isn't affecting everyone. I think the problem is tied to using app(s) that has a leak or not properly updated for the M1.
I agree with Apple_Robert with this one. Even some who have gone in depth on this issue have reported that only some have had this problem, not all. No, the sky is not falling. ?
Look at the bytes written, not the swap space, the swap is just a reserved partition which an app may or may not write to so it's not an accurate indicator of drive use.
For example i have C4D holding 16GB RAM right now, out of which 10GB are swap and yet it has written only 1GB to it.
For example i have C4D holding 16GB RAM right now, out of which 10GB are swap and yet it has written only 1GB to it.
I have learned very quickly things like AdGuard, CleanMyMac, IStats Menu chew up way too much system resources. I have the 8 gig M1 MBA. I installed those based on reviews. With those running, and IMessage, Safari, and Mail I only had 2.5 gigs of ram free. I uninstalled them. I now have 3.8 free. Check Activity Monitor and see what's using up ram. Those 3 were using just over 1 gig total. That makes a huge difference.
Free RAM is not something that is really needed to be focused on like it is on Windows. MacOS will take as much RAM as is available, even if it isn't necessarily needed at the moment. On Macs, you need to keep an eye on Memory Pressure. As long as it stays in the green, you should be fine.
CleanMyMac is really unnecessary bloatware on a Mac. That app, is geared towards people who are ex Windows users, in my opinion. Adguard is good as is iStat, which can be configured not to run at login, in that is a problem.
No clean my Mac here, but I do have iStat and AdGuard, they don't seem to the culprits as much as webpages like Reddit, for example.
16GB/512GB M1 MBA here. Current uptime of over 9 days. Swap used according to Activity Viewer is only 933MB. And that includes plenty of Reddit browsing. Most of the applications I use are ASi optimized with the main exceptions of DropBox and OneDrive if that has any significance.
I think the SSD swap issues must be related to certain apps. It's definitely not universal as DriveDx doesn't report any unusual statistics about my SSD (0.9TB written since Feb 11 when I got it)
I think the SSD swap issues must be related to certain apps. It's definitely not universal as DriveDx doesn't report any unusual statistics about my SSD (0.9TB written since Feb 11 when I got it)
Yeah I have been away from Mac OS for 9 years.. and been a windows user for that long forgot some basics but am relearning. This is my memory usage right according to Activity Monitor....
Everything good right?
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