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I am trying to figure out where I said anything on the contrary.

• matkoniecz 6y ago
  You mentioned "they come with blazingly fast SSDs" as part of what is "allowing devices to get away with less available memory"
  • PartiallyTyped 6y ago
    I did indeed, I never said that SSDs are a replacement for RAM, I just said that having access to 2.5GiB/s RW operations allows you to offload many things into the SSD, yes, thrashing is an issue, but it is much more insignificant at those speeds than disks. I am not defending apple in any way whatsoever, I even mentioned in the first sentence of the comment. I stated that they are able to do that because they compensate with compression and SSDs, applications in the background can be thrown in the swap and the user will rarely notice.
    • detaro 6y ago
      2.5GB/s isn't really all that extraordinary speed anymore.
      • astrange 6y ago
        The part you're skipping over is the memory compression, which is much more important than you think it is.
• kamranjon 6y ago
  I think they are saying that you will start swapping to disk with that little ram.