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NEW MacBook Air M1 8gb 256gb: "your system has run out of application memory"

Just about daily, my new M1 MacBook Air starts to run warm (thought they were SO much cooler now) and then I get a popup to ForceQuit my applications with the message, "your system has run out of application memory" (and showing me that Safari is using the most memory by far). In fact, I checked the RAM usage and its showing 6.3gb out of 8gb. Im wondering is this simply a RAM issue and I should return/exchange for the 16gb model?

Funny enough, my 4 month older MBA 2020 never crashed like this (though it ran scorchingly hot which is why I bought the new M1 to replace it).

Only apps Im running when this happens are: WhatsApp, iMessages, Safari (with LastPass/Rakuten/Honey extensions). Safari has about 15 tabs open, which is nothing for my 10 year old iMac, or the prior MacBooks, so cant imagine its too taxing for this new M1 MacBook?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 30, 2020 10:30 PM

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ewl930

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Posted on Dec 1, 2020 2:45 PM

This happened to me for the first time today on my 8gb M1 MBA and I was so shocked I neglected to take a screen shot. It showed Safari using a gigantic amount of memory with about 15 tabs open and a few other programs; like you, nothing that my older MBA couldn't handle easily. Apple's response is quite disappointing indeed. If/when it happens again to me, I'll be contacting them to complain as well. Keep us posted on how it works out.

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