[daniel-thompson]

I know Docker isn't something Apple makes, but still, this makes me laugh. I run a fair number of containers as part of my daily workflow and the memory overhead, compared to a generic linux amd64 box running the same thing, is on the order of 10x. So for me it's actually more like, 8GB on an M machine == 1GB "regular" RAM.

[SigmundA]

Of course Docker uses much more resources on a Mac than Linux, Docker is Linux specific containers under the hood so on Mac it runs in a full VM with a Linux distro!

Yes if you run docker as part of your regular workflow you probably want more than the base ram config, not sure why this is surprise to anyone unless they don't know how docker works.

[daniel-thompson]

I didn't say it was a surprise; I said the marketing claim made me laugh.