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.

  • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I had a laptop with 8GB. Doing one of those things was fine, but when you open up another program it takes forever to switch to the browser

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      And then you have to activate linux app support for a thing she needs and can not do with chromebook and suddenly it is more complicated than macOS?