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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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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 68 points 7 months ago (5 children)

8 is fine for a tablet.

8 is not fine for a brand-fucking new state of the art laptop.

[–] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"With an apple silicon architecture, 8gb is like 16gb" -some stupid apple flunkey

[–] T156@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The irony is that it's arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.

So if you're watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's because they think that people only do one thing at a time.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

New feature turns off the screen to flush graphics memory so the cpu can process data.

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 12 points 7 months ago

The "touch grass" mode.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

They certainly don't want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

That was just after face planting in a Scarface size pile of cocaine as is standard procedure with all apple marketing teams

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 7 months ago

It's not even enough for a tablet and apple know it, which is why the iPad Pro has 16GB of RAM

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago

8 GB is fine for a medium-priced laptop, where you can add more or at least swap out the existing stick for a bigger one if you ever need it.

[–] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Sure or a phone.

[–] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My iPad has 3GB RAM and honestly that’s enough. I don’t know what you do on your tablet, but for my everyday activities I have never felt limited

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

iPads don't really multitask so it is super easy to hide the low ram with swap.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We’re talking about laptops though. I was just using tablets as a comparison point.

[–] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

I replied to the wrong comment