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> ”According to Apple's propaganda and blogospere, the M1 is much more efficient not "needing" the extra RAM.” The M1 Macs come with very fast SSDs. I think wh
by Reason077 6y ago
> ”According to Apple's propaganda and blogospere, the M1 is much more efficient not "needing" the extra RAM.”
The M1 Macs come with very fast SSDs. I think what’s really going on here is that, with write speeds exceeding 2GB/s, macOS can use NVM almost as if it is RAM with little performance penalty.
It works. With 8GB, my MacBook Air feels as if it has a lot more RAM than it does.
The downside is increased wear on the SSD. My 512GB SSD has accumulated 7 TB of writes in the few weeks I’ve owned it.