Base-model Macs won't be able to take advantage of Apple's flagship Xcode 16 feature: Predictive Code Completion.

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won’t be able to use it. There’s a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it’s the closest thing we’ll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn’t really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

  • resetbypeer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    773·
    5 months ago

    Opens chrome on a 8GB Mac. Sees lifespan of SSD being reduced by 50%. After 2-3 years of heavy usage SSD starts to get errors. Apple solution: buy a new one. No wonder they are 2nd/3rd wealthiest company on the planet.

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      243·
      5 months ago

      buy a new one.

      Buy a new SSD and swap out the old one?

      …buy a new SSD, right??

      • WereCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        5 months ago

        SSD is soldered to the board. With only 8GB you’ll be using the swap partiton a lot so for anything exceeding 8GB of RAM you will be using the SSD as a slower “RAM” which will wear it’s lifespan down by constantly writing/reading into it’ s swap partition.

        • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          5 months ago

          Well they do charge particularly hard for SSDs as well. They’ve found a way to eat the cake twice.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
          9·
          5 months ago

          The Mac Studio uses a standard NVMe SSD but if you replace it with anything that you didn’t buy from Apple with a 500%+ markup, the new drive simply won’t work.

      • vingetcxly@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        Nah ur nat doin that with apple. Cmon just buy a new PC! Wa don car abt the env! Who cares anyway! Cmon not that expensive