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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple (www.macrumors.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly so. Windows eats what it can and leave $X free.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sitting at 300 mb usage after boot running Linux and at 250 mb usage on a secondary machine running OpenBSD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you using a desktop environment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

in Linux I use Sway, although I have XFCE installed as a backup.

I think that what makes a major difference is disabling all the trash services that distributions have enabled by default and most users never make use of. To be fair, I disable Bluetooth too, that people find useful. But I don't think that would make that much of a difference.