Was doing some fairly mundane work on my M1 MBP earlier today-typing up a document in Word and with Firefox running and nothing else unusual running in the background(Apple software Mail and Messages, which were eating a surprising amount of RAM, plus Slack and Excel).
I pulled up Spotlight to do some quick math, and noticed it lagging BADLY-press a key and it takes a second to register bad.
Right after that, this popped up
I quite literally have NEVER seen an "Out of Application Memory" error on a Mac made in the last 15 years. In fact I could tell you the times I've seen it-once was a few years back on a Quadra 700 with 20mb(yes, megabytes) of RAM with an old install of System 7.5 and a hard drive crammed so full it had no space for virtual memory. The second was running OS X 10.4 on a PowerMacintosh 8600 with 128mb of RAM-the latter is comically low specs for an OS as modern as 10.4...
Further to my evidence that 8gb isn't enough. Again, I'm not exactly doing anything outside what you might consider a normal workload to get this message...
I pulled up Spotlight to do some quick math, and noticed it lagging BADLY-press a key and it takes a second to register bad.
Right after that, this popped up
I quite literally have NEVER seen an "Out of Application Memory" error on a Mac made in the last 15 years. In fact I could tell you the times I've seen it-once was a few years back on a Quadra 700 with 20mb(yes, megabytes) of RAM with an old install of System 7.5 and a hard drive crammed so full it had no space for virtual memory. The second was running OS X 10.4 on a PowerMacintosh 8600 with 128mb of RAM-the latter is comically low specs for an OS as modern as 10.4...
Further to my evidence that 8gb isn't enough. Again, I'm not exactly doing anything outside what you might consider a normal workload to get this message...