> I don't how/why/where these myths have been perpetuated from that Apple Silicon Macs magically needs less RAM or magically Apple Silicon Macs are better at me

> I don't how/why/where these myths have been perpetuated from that Apple Silicon Macs magically needs less RAM or magically Apple Silicon Macs are better at memory management. It depends. For the Intel macbook pros, the GPUs had their own separate memory. For the intel macbook airs, the graphics could use up to 1.5GB of the system memory (so your 8GB MBA could have as little as 6.5GB of system memory) The unified memory model in M1 means the graphics can hopefully eat up less RAM since data from the system memory can be read directly by the graphics chip (no need to copy from system memory into graphics-reserved memory)