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The iPad Pro has a mere 4GB of RAM and is faster at almost every task AND multitasking than any of my other beefy machines. I wouldn’t discount this yet.
by jiofih 6y ago
The iPad Pro has a mere 4GB of RAM and is faster at almost every task AND multitasking than any of my other beefy machines. I wouldn’t discount this yet.
- qz2 6y agoI have an iPad Pro. It’s not. And it’s not very flexible.
- sitzkrieg 6y agowhat kind of tasks are those? my eyes rolled into outer space
- jiofih 6y agoVideo, photo & audio editing. Browsing a million tabs. Presentations, documents, videos. Switching between apps is always instant.
- jonplackett 6y agoI think it depends what they've done with Big Sur. Take a look at your activity monitor and see how many background tasks you laptop is running right now (I currently have 481 and I only have 4 apps actually running). Compare that to iPad which can run 2 apps max and apple controls all the background activity.
- nottorp 6y agoI use 27 Gb of RAM currently on my hackintosh and none of my work VMs are on right now. No way I can get an arm Mac until they're available with 64+.
- qz2 6y agoThis. I was hitting a wall on RAM instantly at 32Gb.
- conductr 6y agoOut of curiosity, doing what??
- qz2 6y agoIDE + VMs + office + slack + zoom etc
- conductr 6y agoBlows my mind, I do most of the same on a 2013 MacBook Air with only 8GB RAM. I’ve never had a perf hiccup unless I try video editing or gaming. But I just don’t really have a want to do those things, hence why I’m still getting by on this thing. I was going to upgrade once for the hell of it but all the keyboard issues kept me seated. I expected you to say you did something with graphics/media. I guess the VMs could be the difference. I don’t use. But I have 100 chrome tabs open at most times lol.
- selsta 6y agoAll these things work with 8GB RAM. macOS uses all available RAM aggressively, so if you have 32GB RAM it will appear as what you are doing requires 32GB RAM, which is not the case.
- qz2 6y agoNo they don't. It starts compressing pages when the memory pressure goes up and then it starts running like dog shit.
- nottorp 6y agoOn my machine, if it goes more than 5G into swap it starts to become less responsive. It really depends on your usage patterns. VM abusers and people who need to keep an eye on more than one project at the same time (as in multiple IDEs) can't do with 16 Gb. And please don't tell me to start closing software, I'm willing to pay for more ram to have everything handy. Except... I can't.
- jonplackett 6y agoThe only thing could be some really aggressive swap disk situation offloading anything not needed that second. But that won't work for things where you need all the ram right now, video editing for example.
- selsta 6y agomacOS use RAM aggressively, so it appear as your task requires more RAM than they actually do.
- easton 6y agoBut you don’t have background services on the iPad and apps are hibernated to disk if they aren’t active and iOS needs more ram. It’s possible that Apple is doing the same thing on macOS, but we don’t know (it would break a ton of apps).
- jiofih 6y agoThey started doing exactly that way back in Snow Leopard I think - app “open” indicators were removed at the time.