My main machine is an M4 Mac (24GB RAM / 512GB). It’s extremely fast, but when I open a lot of browser tabs (especially Chrome + dev tools), I start hitting memory pressure.
I also still have my older M1 Mac (16GB / 256GB), which is mostly sitting idle.
Instead of selling it, I’m thinking there must be a smarter way to use both machines together.
Some ideas I’ve been thinking about:
• Turning the M1 into a “tab machine” (browser always open there)
• Running Docker containers / local services on the M1
• Using it as a small home server
• Running background jobs, scripts, scraping, etc.
• Using it as a remote build machine
I’m a developer, so I usually have a lot of tabs, terminals, and tools running at the same time.
For those of you who keep two Macs running — what’s your setup? What actually ended up being useful vs what sounded good in theory?
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