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

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• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since 1990.

  I remember their CPU cycles were “worth more”.

  They also always cheapens out on stuff, even when they used “PC” hardware, CPU from 4 years ago etc and RAM & HDD/SSD were so small you basicallyhad to buy a “next tier” machine (much more expensive).

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  • superschurke@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember their CPU cycles were “worth more”.

    But this exists… There’s still differences amongst PC CPUs in per-cycle performance…

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    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure, but their claim was just bullshit back then.

      They did optimise Photoshop wildly for Mac to try to show they were right IIRC.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is not theirs, it is IBM’s. Or rather Freescale’s, now bought out by NXP. Was true at the time.

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