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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 128 points 7 months ago (52 children)

But but the memory is more efficient, 8 is actually 16!

LMAOOOOOOO 🤡

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (21 children)

To be fair I had an 8Gb M1 Mac mini for about a year and never even once felt like it was lacking memory. I could open as many things as I wanted and it didn’t slow down, so I can kinda see where they were going with this. Not saying it makes that situation much better though.

I think the current base iPhones with 4Gb or 6Gb suffer way more from lack of memory than the 8Gb Macs, and people aren’t taking about this enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

To be honest, I can still do most of my work on my old Core2Quad 4GB DDR2 PC, when using Linux.
And as long as I setup my swap properly, I can also keep as many Firefox tabs open as I want , as I tend to forget tabs (running out of brain memory) before I run out of RAM.

But I just like my 64GB RAM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Increasing swap on Linux is a great way to save money on cloud servers btw. One nice thing on Mac is that there is no swap file that you need to manage. System handles it transparently. Firefox (and really all modern browsers) require a ridiculous of RAM if you use them like you and I do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Core2Quad?

That thing is a space heater that can do some math.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My point being, "I can work on it", can be used even on a space heater.
Same for the IBM R52, which I no longer turn on, because a Pi would be better.

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