Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

• IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then what should I be doing on my phone?

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  • Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Obviously using it as a thin client for this MacBook, duh.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    nothing that requires 8GB of ram lol.

    I’ve played the entirety of java minecraft on an old thinkpad with 4GB of ram. It didn’t crash (i dont use swap)

    There literally shouldn’t be anything capable of using that much memory.

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    • greedytacothief@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this bait? Because like, you could be rendering, simulating, running virtual machines. Lots of stuff that aren’t web browsers also eat ram

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      • RippleEffect@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Web browsers also eat ram.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        on a phone? Why the fuck would anyone be running virtual machines on a phone?

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      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        you could be rendering, simulating, running virtual machines

        On a phone? I guess you could, although 4gb is probably enough for any video game that any amount of people use.

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    • IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about running a chrooted nix install and using a vnc to connect to it? While web browsing and playing a background video? Just because you don’t use your ram doesn’t mean others don’t. And no, I don’t use all my ram, but a little overhead is nice.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        on a phone? I mean i suppose you could do that, but VNC is not a very slick remote access tool for anything other than, well, remote access. The latency and speed over WIFI would be a significant problem, i suppose you could stream from your phone to your TV, but again, most TVs that exist today are smart TVs so literally a non issue.

        my example here was using a computer rather than a phone, to show that even desktop computing tasks, don’t really use all that much ram.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but if you have plenty of RAM on Android, there’s a chance those apps you left in the background will still be running when you go back to them, rather than doing the usual Android thing of just restarting them.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah i get that, but i often only have like 2 apps open on my android phone. And even if you didn’t have enough ram there’s no reason android can’t cache old apps to page file or something. Then you don’t need to restart them, just load it from page. Given how fast modern phone storage is likely to be, this should be pretty negligible.

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