It mostly just shows how crazy fast modern SSDs are that they can do swap duties with performance that is acceptable to many people.
Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoIt doesn’t matter how ‘insanely efficient’ they are. If your tasks need to use more than 8Gb of memory you are going to run out and start swapping to disk.
8gb worth of data is not heavy lifting for professional use.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes if you don’t run out of ram you won’t face ram performance issues…
I wouldn’t be ok waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps on something the price of Mac laptop, even the cheapest m1.
scorpious@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…And yet…?
My point is that while of course more is better, 8 sufficed for me…a professional, doing demanding…professional…work.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sufficed is not an objective term but still is not a favorable term especially for machines that cost that much.
Your original point was that apple’s cpu are somehow more ‘efficient’ with ram. That’s misinformation to put it kindly.