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.

      • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        That all depends on how much work they want to put into troubleshooting it for her. I got my mom a Mac Mini when her PC needed to be replaced. It’s way less responsibility on my part. I mostly just answer the occasional how-to.

        • @Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          Mac is easier than Windows, sure, but not easier than a chromebook. Nothing is simpler than a Chromebook. You can do much more with a Mac, but a chromebook is much easier.

    • @ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10•5 months ago

      I don’t know what Xcode is so yeah, I haven’t been found wanting with my 8GB M2. Videos, downloading, web browsing, writing, chat applications, some photo editing, games (what I can actually play on a Mac, anyway), all good here.

      16GB+ is obviously going to be necessary though, and not exactly that expensive to put into their base models so it should be put in soon.

    • @iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8•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
        1•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?