• azuth@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    It doesn’t matter how ‘insanely efficient’ they are. If your tasks need to use more than 8Gb of memory you are going to run out and start swapping to disk.

    8gb worth of data is not heavy lifting for professional use.

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      7 months ago

      …And yet…?

      My point is that while of course more is better, 8 sufficed for me…a professional, doing demanding…professional…work.

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        7 months ago

        Sufficed is not an objective term but still is not a favorable term especially for machines that cost that much.

        Your original point was that apple’s cpu are somehow more ‘efficient’ with ram. That’s misinformation to put it kindly.

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      7 months ago

      It mostly just shows how crazy fast modern SSDs are that they can do swap duties with performance that is acceptable to many people. The SSD in my MacBook Pro can read/write at 5-6 GB/s. That means it can write out the whole 8 GB of memory of one of those smaller machines in under 2 seconds. As long as your current task fits in 8 GB and you’re fine waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps…

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        7 months ago

        Yes if you don’t run out of ram you won’t face ram performance issues…

        I wouldn’t be ok waiting 2 seconds to switch between apps on something the price of Mac laptop, even the cheapest m1.