Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s normal for these computers. Idea being it doesn’t really benefit you to have a ton of empty ram sitting around waiting to be used. So the OS makes no effort to clear it out until the space is needed.

  If you believe their marketing it’s actually doing the opposite, and preemptively loading stuff into ram in order to make your common tasks feel as snappy as possible. But yeah either way you’ll notice the memory is always “full”, but you never seem run out

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well that would be good, but it goes completely against how i’ve learned to manage my machine these past three decades.

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    • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah it was a trip for me as well to adapt to the new ways. For example it took me a long long time to adjust to allowing the computer to manage the multitasking for me. I would habitually always close out programs I wasn’t using, because I felt deeply from my decades of experience that running tons of things at once would cause many issues.

      I was very uncomfortable letting all these “active” programs pile up, but it really turned out to be all good. The computers are designed to be used this way. And really, I’m better off for it, not having to go in and micromanage everything constantly.

      What I’m trying to say is that learning is not something that is ever finished, you know? There came a day when we stopped defragmenting our hard drives, and now the day has arrived where the computer utilizes all the ram all the time

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      • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Interesting, I didn’t know that. Is that controlled by the operating system or something else? I’m curious about whether my Debian laptop does the same.

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