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Dragxito@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

www.pcgamer.com

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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

www.pcgamer.com

Dragxito@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Apple says 8GB is dandy for most mainstream tasks but that's not actually true.
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    8 is fine for a tablet.

    8 is not fine for a brand-fucking new state of the art laptop.

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      “With an apple silicon architecture, 8gb is like 16gb” -some stupid apple flunkey

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        The irony is that it’s arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.

        So if you’re watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.

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          It’s because they think that people only do one thing at a time.

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            New feature turns off the screen to flush graphics memory so the cpu can process data.

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              The “touch grass” mode.

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            They certainly don’t want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple

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        That was just after face planting in a Scarface size pile of cocaine as is standard procedure with all apple marketing teams

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      It’s not even enough for a tablet and apple know it, which is why the iPad Pro has 16GB of RAM

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      8 GB is fine for a medium-priced laptop, where you can add more or at least swap out the existing stick for a bigger one if you ever need it.

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      Sure or a phone.

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      My iPad has 3GB RAM and honestly that’s enough. I don’t know what you do on your tablet, but for my everyday activities I have never felt limited

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        iPads don’t really multitask so it is super easy to hide the low ram with swap.

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        We’re talking about laptops though. I was just using tablets as a comparison point.

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          I replied to the wrong comment

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