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.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
    252·
    5 months ago

    I still can’t fully accept that 1GB is not normal, 2GB is not very good, and 4GB is not all you ever gonna need.

    If only it got bloated for some good reasons.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I remember when I got my first computer with 1GB of RAM, where my previous computer had 64MB, later upgraded to 192MB. And there were only like 3 or 4 years in between them.

      It was like: holy shit, now I can put all the things in RAM. I will never run out.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      The moment you use a file that is bigger than 1GB, that computer will explode.

      Some of us do more than just browse Lemmy.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        5 months ago

        Wow. Have you ever considered how people were working with files bigger than total RAM they had in the normal days of computing?

        So in your opinion if you have 2GB+ of a log file, editing it you should have 2GB RAM occupied?

        I just have no words, the ignorance.