I have an M1 from 2020 that I use daily for just about everything that isn’t video games, including sketching Blender scenes (to later render on my beefy setup), Ableton Live, 3D Printer slicing, 20+ tab web browsing (I typically don’t use more than this personally) and more. It’s never OOMed no matter what I have going.

I get they’re more expensive new, and I’m not defending their price point, as I’ve always gotten mine several years from new, but I never understand this point that I see everywhere. What are people doing that uses more than the 8GB of RAM on a Mac?

If you need to do 8K video production or do research development and need the compilation power, it’s just not the right tool for those jobs, but it’s more than plenty as a daily driver.