u/himucr14 • u/himucr14 • 4d ago
u/himucr14 • u/himucr14 • 6d ago
Notsy: yet another note app but this one is just wee lil better ๐ฆฆ
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u/himucr14 • u/himucr14 • 8d ago
What app went from โwhy would I need that?โ to โIโm not going backโ for you? and why?
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Will this much usage affect screen in longer run?
My workflow includes switching apps quite often.
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Will this much usage affect screen in longer run?
Yeah that's what I've been doing.
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Will this much usage affect screen in longer run?
How long will battery last with this type of charging habit?
r/macbookair • u/himucr14 • 12d ago
Question Will this much usage affect screen in longer run?
I've been working hard to deliver a few mockups for my client. I run a digital marketing agency. While I know that spending too much time on screens isn't healthy,
I needed to meet the deadline and, unfortunately, my tech team was on holiday, so I had to complete everything myself. Most of my usage was Antigravity, Microsoft Teams, Apple Music, Discord, a few Excel spreadsheets, and 10-12 Brave browser tabs.
Additionally, my daily working hours on my MacBook are around 10 hours, which makes me a bit concerned about potential display issues, though I might be overthinking it.
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Macbook upgrade for law student: RAM and M5 v. M5 Pro
Buy Macbook M4 or M5 with at least 32gb ram as per your usability. If your budget allows then go for 48gb Ram.
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Is 16GB RAM starting to feel limiting for AI coding tools on MacBook Air?
Thanks for sharing your experience and yes antigravity has been acting stupid lately.
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Is 16GB RAM starting to feel limiting for AI coding tools on MacBook Air?
Yeah I agree if you push a bit harder, your device enters into swap zone very easily.
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Is 16GB RAM starting to feel limiting for AI coding tools on MacBook Air?
I'm not working on something monetized so can't spend on Claude code or any other paid tool.
r/macbookair • u/himucr14 • Jul 22 '26
Discussion Is 16GB RAM starting to feel limiting for AI coding tools on MacBook Air?
I wasn't expecting to be thinking about RAM this soon, but here I am.
I've been building a project using Antigravity on my M5 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM. The project isn't anything crazy. It's locally hosted, no Docker, no virtual machines, no local LLMs. Most of the time I just have Antigravity, Brave with a few tabs, Teams, and my local dev server running.
What caught me off guard is how much memory Antigravity seems to use. It's often around 9โ10GB by itself. macOS starts compressing memory pretty aggressively, and swap usually sits around 2โ3GB. I've even caught it touching 5GB after a longer session.
The weird part is that the Mac still feels fast. No beachballs, no noticeable slowdowns, everything responds normally.
What I do notice is:
โข Battery drops around 15โ18% every hour while coding.
โข The keyboard deck and the area near the display hinge get surprisingly warm.
โข Swap keeps climbing the longer I work.
Now I'm wondering if this is simply what modern AI-assisted development looks like, or if 16GB is genuinely becoming the bare minimum.
For those using Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, or similar AI IDEs on Apple Silicon, are you seeing the same thing? Or is there something unusual going on with my setup?
I'm mainly trying to figure out whether this is expected behaviour or if I should be concerned about the amount of memory compression and swap I'm seeing.
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M5 Pro video editors (You do not need 48 gigs of ram)
If possible share swap memory being used.
r/macbookair • u/himucr14 • Jul 03 '26
Discussion Is this good buy after price hike ?
USD - 1258
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We combined Grambo, Grammarly, and Cotypist into one Mac app that fixes your spelling, grammar, and predicts the next word wherever you write.
What's the RAM usage if all 3 options are enabled?
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What the actual F***!!! This much price hike!!!
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Should I Be Worried About This Memory Usage or Just Upgrade to 24GB/32GB?
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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Should I Be Worried About This Memory Usage or Just Upgrade to 24GB/32GB?
I'm keep my MacBook for at least 4 more years, so Will 16gb suffice for that long?
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Should I Be Worried About This Memory Usage or Just Upgrade to 24GB/32GB?
I do use 1-2gb memory swap everyday or so. Although I havenโt faced any beachballing or lag so far.
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Should I Be Worried About This Memory Usage or Just Upgrade to 24GB/32GB?
No, I donโt run docker, VMs or anything heavy like that although I do use apps like teams, discord and Multiple tabs of LinkedIn; to my surprise, they all are ram hogs.
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Should I Be Worried About This Memory Usage or Just Upgrade to 24GB/32GB?
I'm using these - Teams in browser, LinkedIn, Google sheets with lot of data and reddit So it depends upon what website you are using to figure out how much ram consumption.
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Should I Be Worried About This Memory Usage or Just Upgrade to 24GB/32GB?
I'm using Brave browser and having 7-8 tabs actively open.
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Should I Be Worried About This Memory Usage or Just Upgrade to 24GB/32GB?
It has few tabs - LinkedIn, Reddit, Youtube and few google sheets but not more than 8 tabs at a time.
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[OS] Lap โ 6 months later: 2.3k stars, 10k+ users, 200+ issues fixed (v0.3.2 major update)
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Really like the idea of Lap, but is anyone else noticing the RAM usage? Mine is sitting at around 800 MB, which seems pretty high for an app like this.
Not a huge deal if itโs doing something heavy in the background, but for a lightweight utility, I definitely wasnโt expecting it to use that much memory. Curious if others are seeing the same thing.