8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro ‘Analogous to 16GB’ on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,…
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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple
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https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/08/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-like-16-gb-pc/
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dhork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TBi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe it’s true, but a better headline would be “our systems come with 16gb as standard, which feels like 32gb on windows.”
So you get a good amount of ram, which feels better because It’s a Mac.
_s10e@feddit.de 1 year ago
“our systems come with 16gb as standard, which feels like 32gb on windows.”
while performing a task that can be done with 8gb easily
uis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
8gb is overkill, 3gb works just fine
luthis@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
On my unix-based system, after boot I’m sitting at 2gb usage, while Windows would be at >6GB, so it’s not that far fetched. Until you try to run any applications…
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Windows only takes a lot of RAM if it’s available. Try it out with less RAM and it’s more around 2 GB I think.
For any computer I use 32 GB seems to be the optimum nowadays.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly so. Windows eats what it can and leave $X free.
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m sitting at 300 mb usage after boot running Linux and at 250 mb usage on a secondary machine running OpenBSD.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
Memory compression does allow the os to store to cram more data in the RAM, but does 8gb RAM with memory compression really equivalent to 16gb of RAM?
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Windows compresses RAM too. More likely it’s a combination of fast SSDs and being smart about moving things to the SSD if they don’t benefit from being in RAM.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
CrApple are just such hardcore money grabbers since pretty much forever.
ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 11 months ago
God damn fucking marketers
misk@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Apple is banking on some big companies ordering computers based on “Pro” moniker and that’s the reason why 13" Macbook Pro existed at all. Now that it is gone, 14" base M3 is taking its place. It’s likely to be running basic Excel and PowerPoint so that’s okay for the end user but still mighty shitty of Apple to price gouge on RAM.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just a wild guess, I think they mean that the M3 chip can load and unload things so much faster that it doesn’t need as much ram to do regular tasks. Of course, if you are loading video renders into ram, it won’t really apply to it anymore.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
what the chip arquitecture has with I/O operations?💀
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 year ago
M3 is a SoC, or System on a Chip. The whole M3 is all the things. I/O, CPU, GPU, RAM and even storage. Everything is on a single custom ARM chip.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Ok… but PCs can also use zram.
Jesus_666@feddit.de 1 year ago
Ah yes, the megabyte myth. Certainly haven’t anything like that before…
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
just not
blastofffox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RAM manufacturers - haha
JoeKis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had to use an m1 base air for school. The CPU was fast but ram was always at Ower 90 percent while doing almost nothing
adrian783@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ram is meant to be used so high ram usage is not really any indicator of efficiency. if ram is slow and application is being swapped in and out frequently then it will be laggy but high ram usage can also be an indicator of a snappier experience.