Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

• T156@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s because they think that people only do one thing at a time.

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    • arin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      New feature turns off the screen to flush graphics memory so the cpu can process data.

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      • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The “touch grass” mode.

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    • whereisk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They certainly don’t want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple

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• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That was just after face planting in a Scarface size pile of cocaine as is standard procedure with all apple marketing teams

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