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Castrated by a paltry 8GB of RAM in stock configuration! Probably not. macOS has had RAM compression since 2009; by now, it's probably implemented in the M1 S
by alwillis 6y ago
Castrated by a paltry 8GB of RAM in stock configuration!
Probably not.
macOS has had RAM compression since 2009; by now, it's probably implemented in the M1 SoC, so it's really really fast.
8 GB on an M1 is closer to 16 GB on most other processor/operating system combinations.
- tartrate 6y agoThat's amazing. I usually read in 16 GB of image data into memory for analysis. I'm guessing that will work fine on the 8GB ram macbook then. /s
- gambiting 6y agoLook, it doesn't have to work for everyone. Of course there are workloads where it's not going to be enough. That's fine. My personal workload requires 128GB of ram but I don't go around telling people 8GB laptops are pointless.
- kbenson 6y agoI don't think that's the point they were trying to make. I think they were saying that just because the OS has RAM compression doesn't mean it's like doubling the RAM on other operating systems, and that's even before you consider that those other operating systems have RAM compression too. Saying something is like having 16 GB of RAM when you can't actually use it as 16 GB of RAM deserves to be called out.
- Dylan16807 6y agoLinux and Windows have ram compression too. It's helpful, but it's nowhere near doubling your memory. Especially when you have an SSD to swap inactive data to, the benefit of compression is equivalent to adding something like 0-2GB of RAM.