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Comment on 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple

It’s an entirely different architecture, so every program needs less RAM (with exceptions like I mentioned above). That’s why they’re using shared RAM; because they can pull it off (mostly).

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dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
ARM is pretty efficient, that’s true. But an 8 gig video will always be an 8 gig video. No amount of processing and compression and swap tricks will make it occupy any less space without a massive hit to performance that an x86-64 arch with 16+GB of ram won’t have to endure.

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- PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Uhh what? That’s not how RAM works, you don’t load an entire 8GB video you’re playing into RAM.
  
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  - BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You do if you’re editing it, and the editing capabilities are one of the main selling points of macOS
    
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  - dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    When you have 64GB of RAM, you do.
    
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ossadeimorti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lol

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Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
no

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