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The Apple I want figures out how you put 32GB RAM in a thin laptop while preserving battery life!

• rbanffy 8y ago
  They could, in theory, have a "power saving" mode that tries to consolidate as much as it can into as few memory modules as possible (I'm currently using about 39% of memory, the rest being free and cache), virtual addresses would remain untouched and only physical addresses would change after a move and then it'd be possible to power down the memory modules that are not being used (PCIe-attached storage is slower than memory, but fast and power saving don't go together that well)
  • eptcyka 8y ago
    OSX is already proactively compressing memory in the background, if it deems a process worthy of compression.
    • rbanffy 8y ago
      Isn't it compressing caches only?
• bpicolo 8y ago
  Probably would help if they freed up space and battery life by not having a totally unnecessary second screen taking up the top row of the keyboard.
  • donarb 8y ago
    And replace it with what, function keys? Keys which are thicker than the screen that replaced them and has far more functionality in a smaller footprint?