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Of course you can get better $/performance when you're not paying for something that is extremely optimized for weight and energy efficiency. Also, you don't n
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
Of course you can get better $/performance when you're not paying for something that is extremely optimized for weight and energy efficiency.
Also, you don't need to spend $3k on a MBP? I spent ~$1500 for a 16GB system with the higher-tier GPU.
- askonomm 3y ago16GB really isn't enough these days. I put 64 GB in my machine for as little as 200 EUR. How much would that cost in Apple land? Extra 1000?
- acdha 3y ago16GB isn’t enough for Windows. macOS is surprisingly more efficient - it’s not just swapping to their faster storage, either: lots of attention to detail everywhere means that you see less memory pressure across the board. Even using VSC, Teams, and Podman heavily, 16GB has plenty of headroom. The reason you can’t update the RAM on Apple silicon is the engineering tradeoff they made to have it be faster. That required work on the software side – e.g. they added a CPU extension to compress memory pages and updated the OS to use it effectively – but they have the advantage of not needing to coordinate multiple internal feuding factions and outside vendors the way that Microsoft has to.
- askonomm 3y agoI have a 16GB MacBook Pro (M2 Pro chip), and my Linux PC (I don't use Windows) runs a lot smoother than my MacBook does for programming tasks such as running IntelliJ / Android Studio / bunch of docker vm's.