Has anyone run into limitations with an 8gb RAM M1 Mac Mini? I'm expecting there are some compromises with only 8gb, but curious about real-world results.
It's impressive to see that the M1 Mac Mini is capable of running PhotogrammetrySession at all, unlike my 2020 Intel MBP. I'm planning to buy one just for this purpose.
The requirements in the slide from the presentation says that any M1 will work, whereas Intel chips need 16gb RAM and a 4gb AMD video card.
I'm inclined to get a Mac Mini with 16gb, but that config isn't available near me for pickup and delivery is more than a week out. If I knew that 8gb was enough to process 150 or so photos at high quality that's probably all I would need and could save $200 and get it immediately.
Side note: I've been doing photogrammetry on PCs for years and would run out of memory occasionally using Agisoft on a 64gb system, which I needed to upgrade to 128gb. Those were large datasets (500+ photos) covering several hundred square meters from a drone at high resolution. My object scanning needs won't be as demanding, however 8gb just doesn't seem like much to work with. But, I suppose that even Nvidia 3070 Ti's only have 8gb of video memory and the M1's unified memory architecture might make that a better comparison than thinking about traditional system memory...
