It’s not even enough for a tablet and apple know it, which is why the iPad Pro has 16GB of RAM
Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
8 is fine for a tablet.
8 is not fine for a brand-fucking new state of the art laptop.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 months ago
8 GB is fine for a medium-priced laptop, where you can add more or at least swap out the existing stick for a bigger one if you ever need it.
nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure or a phone.
Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
My iPad has 3GB RAM and honestly that’s enough. I don’t know what you do on your tablet, but for my everyday activities I have never felt limited
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
iPads don’t really multitask so it is super easy to hide the low ram with swap.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
We’re talking about laptops though. I was just using tablets as a comparison point.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“With an apple silicon architecture, 8gb is like 16gb” -some stupid apple flunkey
T156@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The irony is that it’s arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.
So if you’re watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It’s because they think that people only do one thing at a time.
arin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
New feature turns off the screen to flush graphics memory so the cpu can process data.
whereisk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They certainly don’t want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple
n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That was just after face planting in a Scarface size pile of cocaine as is standard procedure with all apple marketing teams