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Swap on macOS is incredibly good. Not sure how Apple does it. Maybe hardware compression?

• longislandguido 7mo ago
  > Not sure how Apple does it. They do it by prematurely wearing down the soldered SSD just in time for you to buy a new laptop.
  • aurareturn 7mo ago
    As far as I know, there is no M1 8GB SSD wear down complaints in 2026.
    • spicySpy 7mo ago
      There are - people are complaining about SSD health
      • aurareturn 7mo ago
        Source? Is it SSDs breaking down or people are just looking at SSD usage and then get scared?
• p_ing 7mo ago
  It's no different from NT in that respect. macOS is significantly worse at handling OOM events than NT (even NT4, for that matter).