I have a M1Max with 64, but I did have an M1 with 16 and most things ran faster than on my 2019 Intel Mac. The bump to M3Max might be worth it if you do a lot of number crunching or anything that can use a GPU, but even the lowest end machines are crazy fast.
The only thing I'll say is that 8GB is not enough on the M3 - don't get that one, but 24 should have you zooming along nicely. —Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <m...@macports.org> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:22 AM Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2023, at 10:04 PM, Alexander Newman via macports-users < > macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: > > Are large-ish MacPorts ports going to compile all right on a 24 MB RAM > iMac with, say, a 2TB SSD, without the hardware throttling? The same with > running R. Do many people on this list use AS machines, and what are their > experiences and advice regarding MacPorts on them? Am I in fact > over-thinking it? > > I'll let others chime in for the specific ports you mentioned (as I don't > use them) - but for reference I have an M1Pro/16G MacBook Pro and macports > + all the ports I care about work fine on it (and it's quite a bit more > responsive than my 2018 mac mini). > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > >
