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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Well, 2000€ for a "Pro" model of the Macbook 14" with only 8GB RAM sounds a bit strange, tbf. And +230€ for +8GB is straight up greedy.

They said "Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems" and well , that's definitely not the case for their upcoming AI usecases, because - and many people seem to overlook that - their RAM is shared RAM (or as they call it "unified memory"), which means that the GPU is limited by these 8GB of (V)RAM because it can only use what is left by the System usage.