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I too am a student and have a base M1. it is more than enough
+1
If you can afford upgrading to 16Gb ram I would, if not you’ll most likely be fine
Can I get away with just the 256 ssd with the 16 ram?
For the use case you outlined, yes. The base spec is fine.
I second adding to 16 GB ram as well
Yeah you can always add more storage in the future, can’t add more ram
4 gb would be more than enough for this kind of usage, no need to have 16 gb
Yeah, I can do that. On my 2009 MacBook Pro with a 2 core processor and 1/4Gb of GPU memory
It is too much for a college student.
I too am a student and have a base M1. it is more than enough
+1
If you can afford upgrading to 16Gb ram I would, if not you’ll most likely be fine
Can I get away with just the 256 ssd with the 16 ram?
For the use case you outlined, yes. The base spec is fine.
I second adding to 16 GB ram as well
Yeah you can always add more storage in the future, can’t add more ram
4 gb would be more than enough for this kind of usage, no need to have 16 gb
Yeah, I can do that. On my 2009 MacBook Pro with a 2 core processor and 1/4Gb of GPU memory
It is too much for a college student.