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1. This is where power users will always get irritated with Apple's philosophy - instead of informing the user that memory is running out and asking the user to
by webmobdev 4y ago
1. This is where power users will always get irritated with Apple's philosophy - instead of informing the user that memory is running out and asking the user to decide which apps to terminate, Apple decides it for you. Good for naive users. Not for superusers.
2. Yet another reason to not go for devices with soldered RAMs from any company. (Remember, we used to run Linux and Windows on just 16/32 MB ram. It wasn't enough. Today, 8/16 GB are common. And yet again, not enough.)
- frizlab 4y agoThis has nothing to do with RAM though. macOS does this when _disk space_ is low, not RAM.
- webmobdev 4y agoYou are right, my mistake. Still highlights why memory - RAM or HDD - needs to be upgradeable, and why it isn't a good idea to go for devices with soldered RAM and HDD / SSD.
- tengwar2 4y agoI agree in respect of the SSD. RAM is a little different on M1 machines as there is supposed to be a substantial memory bandwidth improvement resulting from the tight integration with the SoC and processor.
- frizlab 4y agoIf I’m not mistaken (but I very well might be), that’s true for the SSD too with the M1. The controller of the SSD is a part of the M1 chip; it’s not separate as with traditional SSD. @marcan42 tweeted about this at some point, but I might have misunderstood, it’s too low level for me.