3%, 12% Potato, potato. It’s a small spec performance difference for a huge price difference. Meanwhile, for actual real-world workloads, not spilling to swap

3%, 12% Potato, potato. It’s a small spec performance difference for a huge price difference. Meanwhile, for actual real-world workloads, not spilling to swap (because you have enough memory) will result in real-world performance that is many times (even an order of magnitude) better. Even with Apples blazing fast SSDs. Oh, and you can also spec a cheaper SSD because you don’t need one that can take a bajillion writes (because you aren’t treating your SSD as memory). AND the cheaper SSD will last longer too. In short, Apple could spec cheaper components AND get better real world performance by simply shipping computers that have enough memory. Edit: also 3% comes from shipping the absolute fasted DDR5 modules vs the second fasted DDR5.