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.

  • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    That’s hilarious when we’re in the context of a major manufacturer admitting that 8GB of RAM isn’t enough for common use cases, to which someone tries to point out the bloated nature of our applications and misuse of resources, and here you are saying it doesn’t matter “in the slightest” when the shit’s still costly to make, you dumbass.