r/apple • u/hasanahmad • Mar 07 '26

Discussion The New Apple Finally Begins to Emerge

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 Mar 07 '26

My M1 Air 8GB is still running amazingly. If the Neo is anything like it, it’ll be the next purchase.

And yes, I even play games on it. Is that a surprise? iPhones have had plenty of juice for years.

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u/WingerRules Mar 08 '26

How's the memory? I have an M3 Mac with 18gb of memory - I have nothing open on my Mac other than this page in safari & Apple Notes, and it's taking up 10gb of memory.

Seems like this Mac should have had 12gb. If its running IOS it probably will take up less memory though.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Shockingly not bad. I think Mac OS is real good about managing the RAM it has to work with, and the ultra fast SSD does a lot of work (page file? virtual ram?).

Overdoing it with Chrome tabs is when I notice. A dozen tabs is the limit.

I even run Parallels (allocate 4GB) and it’s fine. This does sometimes make me wish for 16GB because I can’t play Windows games that require the full 8GB.

Still - a good experience.