My laptops since about 2018 have all had 32G of memory. No combination of Lightroom, video streaming, Jetbrains IDEs, Slack, dozens of browser tabs, and recently generative graphics have ever caused detectible memory pressure.

I’m beginning to think that for the vast majority of people, 32G is enough memory, for the foreseeable future.

@timbray I think we'll settle on 64gb over time, so I mostly agree
@codinghorror @timbray I think the modern SSD speeds also play a factor why even 16GB feels snappy, at least on M1/M2.
@tillkruss @codinghorror @timbray i have an m1 with 8 GB and I'm surprisingly ok with it's performances.