Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
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.
69 1 Reply"With an apple silicon architecture, 8gb is like 16gb" -some stupid apple flunkey
51 0 ReplyThe 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.
31 0 ReplyIt's because they think that people only do one thing at a time.
20 0 ReplyNew feature turns off the screen to flush graphics memory so the cpu can process data.
17 0 ReplyThe "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
13 0 Reply8 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.
3 1 ReplySure or a phone.
1 0 ReplyMy 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
1 4 ReplyiPads don't really multitask so it is super easy to hide the low ram with swap.
9 0 ReplyWe’re talking about laptops though. I was just using tablets as a comparison point.
3 1 ReplyI replied to the wrong comment
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