But the 2TB model has another advantage, the SSD is faster. Here is the UTM website for their Hypervisor-Emulator.
I run a lot of apps on my 16GB model with 2TB SSD and I only hit a hard limit once at around 20GB of swap (roughly double 12GB) with 4 Adobe apps and another half-dozen apps open with other background processes running. Luckily for M1 MacBook users, there is a product called UTM which does pretty much all the hard work of emulation on our behalf, so that we can run an OS itself in emulated mode, and then trust the OS<->QEMU communications to work out.Swap memory works great but on the M1 but it may start to drag when once its double the size of your free memory. It's that initial overhead which puts the 8GB model at a substantial disadvantage. Think of it this way, the 8GB model probably has 4GB free from the start with some basic apps open, while a 16GB would have 12GB or three times that. So what’s the difference Let’s do a quick comparison.
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VMware then later released a tech preview for their own VMware Fusion software (free while in preview). If your a developer or any kind of power user I doubt 8GB is going to cut it. Initially, the only option for running virtual machines on M1 Macs was Parallels Desktop, so that’s where I started.
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I have no doubt it will run but you'll probably drop straight into swap memory from the start, especially if you're using an external monitor. Mac OS X hosts (64-bit): 10.13 (High Sierra) 10.14 (Mojave) 10.15 (Catalina) Plus > VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, which the M1 or M1X are not part of this. Please clarify if this will run with 8GB ram on the M1 or does it need 16GB to be practical? Especially since one of your reviews implied 8GB of ram on M1 was similar to 16GB ram on Intel Mac.