Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
shalva97@lemmy.world 5 months ago
my 3 year old phone has more RAM than that
Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
shalva97@lemmy.world 5 months ago
my 3 year old phone has more RAM than that
Hiko0@feddit.de 5 months ago
This is nothing to brag about, when Android needs this to run smoothly, compared to the same performance of a 6 GB iPhone.
TheLemming@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Who let the apple marketing people in here?
Hiko0@feddit.de 5 months ago
I can say that it wasn‘t any of the Android edgelords or Linux neckbeards.
homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Some of us want to buy tools instead of toys. 4GB was great for the xbox 360 slim. Will it run anything a sane person would get a mac for? Probably not, most mac DAW I’ve used personally are hungry and 4gb is less than the machine I had my last crash filled experience on.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 months ago
Android has a garbage collector, meaning it requires an additional 2GB of RAM of overhead to keep things smooth. iPhones run significantly hotter than Androids, and consume more energy to achieve their performance gains.
It’s not true to simply state “one is better than the other”. There’s various metrics in which either one may be better.
Hiko0@feddit.de 5 months ago
That‘s exactly what I was criticizing. So how is “more RAM = better“ as an absolute statement right, then?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
jfc this is inane.
there’s this thing called multitasking, you might have heard of it. when you want to open more than one app and use them all at the same time, GUESS WHAT BRIGHT LIGHTS? Takes more memory.
This is the dumbest shit take I’ve ever seen.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 months ago
Well, more RAM will always help. An iPhone with more RAM will allow it to perform better than one with less RAM. Similarly, too little RAM will hamper performance regardless of the device.