Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs
tb_@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDoes it?
Previous benchmarks have shown the 8 GB models seriously fell behind in performance.
Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs
tb_@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDoes it?
Previous benchmarks have shown the 8 GB models seriously fell behind in performance.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Yeah I think the joke just flew over your head.
Apple keeps saying that their RAM is somehow magic and therefore better than Windows RAM, which is a comment that obviously makes no sense.
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think they are able to share it with the GPU or something? It is maybe slightly better but it sure as fuck is not 2x better.
8 GB, even if it is “magic RAM,” is a joke amount and has been for a long time.
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s just an APU, see consoles and laptops. The unified memory is basically just the above, but Apple also claims that due to Apple Silicon having the storage controller on board, the swap is magically faster 🤷
Also Mac OS/Linux use less RAM than Windows which certainly helps.
8GB is “fine™” on a MacBook Air, but it’s criminal for a Pro machine, and it certainly should not cost £200 for an extra 8GB. That’s genuinely insane pricing
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the real issue, isn’t it? The upgrade prices are disconnected from reality by a lot. If they were within the realm of sanity nobody would care much that the base is 8 GB.
cheddar@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I realize this should be a joke, but I am still unsure if it is.
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is 100% a joke. Literally other than Windows being slightly more RAM hungry, there’s no difference between it and Mac’s RAM
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Memory is memory. An application requires a lot of memory then it really doesn’t matter what speed that memory is it’s more important that there’s enough of it.
There are plenty of applications that could theoretically run on the M2 MacBook in terms of processing capacity but can’t run because there isn’t enough RAM available. Oh they run in switching mode, which is super bad, because a, it’s incredibly slow, and b, it’s bad for the hard drive.