[paulmd]

swapping on an m4 with a midrange pcie 4.0 SSD is quite different from swapping on a celeron with a low-end SATA SSD or spinning rust, plus linux/unix/macos is generally much better with swapping sensibly than windows.

believe it or not, an 8GB macos device is generally quite usable even if it's swapping, as long as it's apple silicon family. yes, it's not going to save if you if your working set is more than 8GB and you need everything in the set, but chrome/firefox do not actually need the 32gb you are probably giving them.

[nox101]

Yes but an 8gig Mac cost $999. A 8gig windows box costs $249

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Students-Business-Quad-Core-Storag...

Grandma, on a fixed income, buys the $249 machine.