I have an identical gen mac mini I bought for testing out the apple silicon for my workloads a year and a half ago, except it's 16GB min spec version - I got ra

I have an identical gen mac mini I bought for testing out the apple silicon for my workloads a year and a half ago, except it's 16GB min spec version - I got ram throttled on that thing constantly as soon as I start using it for development. If it was just productivity I could get away with it - but as soon as I start something like JetBrains Rider on it or VSCode with C# language memory pressure is in the yellow and if I start a next server for frontend the machine just grinds to a halt. Even when I'm using remote workstation my memory usage is hovering above 20gb with active swap on my laptop. Soo many electron productivity apps eating up ram like crazy. If it was more readily available on retailers such as Amazon I would even recommend 32gb ram air for local workflows - if you're doing development these days you're just going to need it - especially with LLM workflows and parallelizing work. The price difference between 16 and 24 is not even close to not justify picking it for a work machine. Thing is having more cores/faster cores might make your workflows 1-2x faster but hitting swap is going to be like >10x degradation