Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests

Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Darken@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Um actthually mac is so oPtimized so 1gb mac = 12.3gb windows 🤓

  STFU it physically has less ram than a potato while costing the price of a nasa rocket

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  • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also Apple™ RAM costs like 4 to 8 times as much. Being $200 for 8GB. So assuming fantasy land Apple™ iMagic™ means 8GB = 16GB it’s still a minimum of twice the cost per dollar

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple ram actually is just more dense. They can fit more binary in each gigabyte.

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      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok, so a tech neophyte here so please dont crucify me. Would that not be adding more transistors to the ram? And, would that not affect clock speed?

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    • sergih@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and if u spend another 200 it goes from 16 to 32, so apparrntly somehow 8gb can cost 200 or 100 bc apple

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who mentioned Windows??

    Did you watch the video? The 8GB model is like 1/4 the speed of the 16GB model.

    It’s a bottleneck, clear as day. I just thought it was funny that Apple is so stingy that they’d even consider putting an offensive 8GB of ram on this laptop.

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Darken was poking fun at the Mac fan boy trope.

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      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        LOL. That went over my head. 😂

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ✈️ 🙄

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      • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Normally I hate emojis, but I have to admit that they are a powerful and very concise language.

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    • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple did macrumors.com/…/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-like-16-gb…

      It’s not directly mentioned in this conversation, but the excuse as to why they put such a pathetic amount of RAM in the laptop is that “Macs use it more efficiently”

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      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Apple being apple… marketing at it’s worst.

        Sure, it’s “more efficient” than other operating systems if you want to look at how much space is being utilized, but other operating systems don’t seem to have the same catastrophic performance bottlenecks as this apple laptop apparently does.

        The fact that going from 8gb to 16gb improves system performance by 4-5x is something you’d never see happen in a “less efficient” operating system, so what’s Apple’s excuse for using it?

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    • Darken@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure if you are serious since my post was clearly mocking apple’s “it’s optimized” argument

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      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, no your post went right over my head. LOL

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