For developers, new MBA m4 24gb 1TB ssd or MBA m4 32gb 512GB?

[yagooliverce]

For context, I have a doubt about what would be more important. I never had a mac, I usually use windows and linux. Unfortunately, windows manages the memory badly. My current laptop has 32gb and when I run my workload it consumes on windows about 23 - 27gb RAM. On Linux it consumes much less memory (15gb) and I think on a MacBook would be the same. So, I was in doubt about in either get a MBA with 32gb/512 SSD or 24/1TB ssd, for the pro machine I would spend much more with the same specs, I'm currently based in Europe. That's what my budget can I afford, I can spend more in a upgrade and using the education It would be more than 400 euros less in comparison with the pro version of the MB

I was previously considering buy a MBP m4 but I decided to wait for the MBA to come out. For me lack of fan will not be an issue, as a developer I spend more time coding, of course I run docker containers for my environment (I have a Linux machine that I could use just for my infrastructure, but it is faster run locally). Also, I'll not be running workflows that push the machine for several minutes with no stop like video editing, so I think I'm not gonna have issues with throttling (let's see the firsts reviews), and I really like the form factor and lighter laptop. The MBP with 120hz would be great actually but I spend more time using an external monitor.

 

[IowaLynn]

One thought: a system is better usually to USE as much RAM as is available. That isn't necessarily bad, unless other tasks are impacted. Same with Apple.

Sometimes, upgrade to have more RAM and apps and system will use more. It was held back by what could be loaded into memory.

 

[kschendel]

I think I'd lean towards the 32GB 512GB unit. You can add external storage but you can't add memory.

 

[yagooliverce]

One thought: a system is better usually to USE as much RAM as is available. That isn't necessarily bad, unless other tasks are impacted. Same with Apple.

Sometimes, upgrade to have more RAM and apps and system will use more. It was held back by what could be loaded into memory.

I agree with it, not used memory is waste memory, the thing is I already had issues while working on windows due the poor memory management. Things that didn't happening while working on Linux

I think I'd lean towards the 32GB 512GB unit. You can add external storage but you can't add memory.

Yeah, I'm almost deciding to get this config. My idea is to keep this laptop as my main machine for 3 or 4 years maximum, so I'm wondering if it will be enough until them, as new software are getting more space consuming. For me, now, memory is more important and 512gb would be fine.