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.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
    41·
    5 months ago

    Do you actually want to run an application that doesn’t exist on Linux?

    I use a virtual machines for the 2 or 3 times a year I need to use a couple garbage windows-only programs. Usually for configuring some arcane piece of proprietary hardware that people were getting rid of because it is incompatible with everything.

    • suction@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      5 months ago

      You come to my house and talk big about how I should do this that and the other, frankly it’s disrespectful.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        “Disrespectful” would be telling you that you in particular should continue to use windows or mac, and avoid Linux like the plague.

        • suction@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          5 months ago

          OK you know what, let me make it up to you. Just walk down the street, third entry to the right, we came into some really nice designer clothes, choose whatever you want, it’s on the house. Just walk in the door, go ahead.