My work is cheaping out on laptops and also the vendor they buy MacBooks from only wants to do off the shelf SKUs and not CTO (Configure To Order). So due to Apple's crazy low base RAM I have a MacBook Pro 2019 with 8GB RAM.
Literally every day I get this panicy popup saying I MUST close something or the system will reboot. Often I get random crashes. The "Memory Pressure" in activity monitor is almost always red.
I don't know how Apple can advocate selling a "Pro" system with only 8GB RAM while making the mandatory upgrade to 16 really expensive and difficult (much longer leadtime on CTO models).
I’ve literally not once got one of those pop-ups you described on my 8GB 2015 MBP. Not saying your point is invalid, just saying there’s a lot of professionals that don’t require more 8GB of RAM.
Strange enough it's mainly Outlook that seems crazy memory hungry. Usually it's using about 3GB by itself alone.
I've taken to using the web version a lot but it's not ideal. Another big memory hog is Firefox. I don't use Safari because macOS isn't the only platform I use.
True, I have very little free disk space too. Because my work also cheaped out on storage with the 128GB model. XCode alone is 30GB and Outlook takes up about 20 as it downloads my entire mail library by default (and there seems to be no way to tell it to just sync the last 2 months and keep the rest on the server).
My work is cheaping out on laptops and also the vendor they buy MacBooks from only wants to do off the shelf SKUs and not CTO (Configure To Order). So due to Apple's crazy low base RAM I have a MacBook Pro 2019 with 8GB RAM.
Literally every day I get this panicy popup saying I MUST close something or the system will reboot. Often I get random crashes. The "Memory Pressure" in activity monitor is almost always red.
I don't know how Apple can advocate selling a "Pro" system with only 8GB RAM while making the mandatory upgrade to 16 really expensive and difficult (much longer leadtime on CTO models).