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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

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577 points simonw | 1 comments | 29 Jul 25 13:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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pamelafox ◴[29 Jul 25 14:13 UTC] No.44723651[source]▶
Alas, my 3 year old Mac has only 16 GB RAM, and can barely run a browser without running out of memory. It's a work-issued Mac, and we only get upgrades every 4/5 years. I must be content with 8B parameters models from Ollama (some of which are quite good, like llama3.1:8b).
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__mharrison__ ◴[29 Jul 25 15:19 UTC] No.44724480[source]▶
Odd. My MBP has 16 GB and I routinely have 5 browsers windows open. Most of them have 5-20 tabs. I'm also routinely running vi vscode and editing videos with davinci resolve without issue.

My only memory issue that I can remember is an OBS memory leak, otherwise these MBPs incredible hardware. I wish any other company could actually deliver a comparable machine.

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1. pamelafox ◴[29 Jul 25 16:35 UTC] No.44725454[source]▶
I was exaggerating slightly - I think it's some combo of the apps I use: Edge, Teams, Discord, VS Code, Docker. When I get the RAM popup once a week, I typically have to close a few of those, whichever is using the most memory according to Activity Monitor. I've also got very little hard drive space on my machine, about 15 GB free, so that makes it harder for me to download the larger models. I keep trying to clear space, even using CleanMyMac, but I somehow keep filling it up.