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Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
submitted 9 months ago by filister to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (26 children)

I'll admit I don't use Macs, so maybe they are more efficient than the Linux and windows machines I work off...

...but I typically use machines with 64GB and recently upgraded my personal machine to 128GB. I still swap about 50GB to my SSD from time to time.

And I'm not doing heavy graphic design or movie editing stuff.

I cannot fathom for the life of me how 8GB would ever be feasible.

[โ€“] Specal 7 points 9 months ago

It's worth mentioning that windows will use as much ram as possible just because it can and leave available with what it considers "reasonable"

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