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I don't even think I've ever even seen my work MacBook using under 8GB of RAM and I'm fairly RAM efficient in my workflow. You'd start Docker on that thing and half your RAM is gone already, add VSCode and Chrome and everything is trashing already.
For the average user? Yeah, compression and swap is probably good enough. For professional use? Hell no.
On my unix-based system, after boot I'm sitting at 2gb usage, while Windows would be at >6GB, so it's not that far fetched. Until you try to run any applications..
I'm sitting at 300 mb usage after boot running Linux and at 250 mb usage on a secondary machine running OpenBSD.
Windows only takes a lot of RAM if it's available. Try it out with less RAM and it's more around 2 GB I think.
For any computer I use 32 GB seems to be the optimum nowadays.
Maybe it’s true, but a better headline would be “our systems come with 16gb as standard, which feels like 32gb on windows.”
So you get a good amount of ram, which feels better because It’s a Mac.
“our systems come with 16gb as standard, which feels like 32gb on windows.”
while performing a task that can be done with 8gb easily
8gb is overkill, 3gb works just fine
CrApple are just such hardcore money grabbers since pretty much forever.
God damn fucking marketers
Ok.. but PCs can also use zram.
Ah yes, the megabyte myth. Certainly haven't anything like that before...
just not
Memory compression does allow the os to store to cram more data in the RAM, but does 8gb RAM with memory compression really equivalent to 16gb of RAM?
Apple is banking on some big companies ordering computers based on "Pro" moniker and that's the reason why 13" Macbook Pro existed at all. Now that it is gone, 14" base M3 is taking its place. It's likely to be running basic Excel and PowerPoint so that's okay for the end user but still mighty shitty of Apple to price gouge on RAM.
Just a wild guess, I think they mean that the M3 chip can load and unload things so much faster that it doesn’t need as much ram to do regular tasks. Of course, if you are loading video renders into ram, it won’t really apply to it anymore.
RAM manufacturers - haha
That analogy being 16 : 8 :: plenty : less.
Ahhh, it's like the good old days of Intel whipping their asses. "400 MHz is like 700 MHz!" Sure. They're both measured in the same units... for now.
