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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

The "touch grass" mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] n3m37h 2 points 7 months ago

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