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I wouldn’t buy a machine with 8gb and the MBAs are just extracting value from their customers. However as an engineer interested in efficient software, I suppo
by innagadadavida 2y ago
I wouldn’t buy a machine with 8gb and the MBAs are just extracting value from their customers.
However as an engineer interested in efficient software, I support what Apple is doing here. If there is a significant number more of machines with just 8gb, it forces the software developers to think and consider these folks to keep their software less bloated. I’m not talking about professional apps like photoshop, but regular things like email clients and browsers. I feel browsers and bloated websites can optimize their memory consumption here.
- layer8 2y agoSafari doesn’t seem to be particularly optimized in that way, judging by its reloading behavior. If Apple itself doesn’t do it, who will?
- innagadadavida 2y agoSafari seems to be doing better than Chrome for memory consumption, I don't know any other browsers that are better here - root cause is that the websites have to fix their excessive memory consumption. The reloading behavior that I've seen on iPhone Safari a lot seems to be due to websites consuming excessive memory that triggers the tab to get closed. You are right, this is not sufficient carrot/stick for website developers to fix their software.
- plorkyeran 2y agoI would expect shared code between macOS and iOS to be a much better driver of that. 8GB is still a lot more than most iPhones have, and a large part of the OS is shared between platforms.