Does a 32gb RAM MacBook Air make sense?
I’m looking to buy a new work laptop. I’m in tech sales and don’t really do any hardcore things or local LLMs or or VMs or anything.
I do use tools like Claude, do some occasional light video editing and use my laptop to run live shows for my band (backing tracks, control MIDI, DAW things..)
While I definitely don’t need 32gb or even 24gb now, I do notice web pages are increasingly more memory intensive, among other things.
I’m buying this laptop for the next four to five years, potentially even longer. Would it make sense from a future proofing perspective to go 32gb?
Final note, I won’t go Pro because I like the smaller size and lighter weight of the Air for travel.
EDIT: Yeah sure, I can afford a 32gb or a Pro. My point really is wether an Air is able to actually utilize 32gb and make a difference over 24gb. And whether I should expect that the things I do today will require significantly more RAM in the coming years, much like how simply browsing website requires much more RAM today than it did a few years ago.
And again, I don’t want a Pro. I recently also had Pro, could’ve used that Pro, then sold the Pro and kept the Air.