netrox

People complain about how Apple is little on RAM on iPhones when real life usage show no effect at all despite Androids needing TWICE MORE RAM to just function.

Also, an interesting note that no one seems to mention is that when Apple was marketing how their MacBook Air M2 is faster than Intel laptops... if you look at how they conducted their tests ... they literally compared the baseline Macs with 8GB with 256GB SSD against PCs with 16GB RAM with 512GB SSD!

"Testing was conducted by Apple in April and May 2023 using production 13-inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD, preproduction 15-inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD as well as Intel Core i7-based PC systems with Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, and the latest version of Windows 11 available at the time of testing." https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-13-and-15-m2/#footnote-6

That's the problem with consumer perception when it comes to RAM.

We are NOT doubling RAM like we used to anymore because we no longer need it thanks to SSDs capable of transferring huge data instantly. 

RAM was literally created as a gap solution for slow disk access and transfer rate. It was also necessary for windowing systems which takes a lot of memory and needed to be accessed quickly.

Now we have SDDs capable of transferring at least 2GB per second with instant access seek which makes virtual memory management a breeze for many tasks. The lifespan of SSDs also improved as well. By the time, SDDs wear off badly, the machine would be outdated and need to be replaced by a new machine that's certainly at least 10X faster.

Also, MacOS uses RAM compression on the fly so having 8GB is like 16GB. And the unified RAM makes it a lot more efficient with memory usage.

If you use HDD as a boot disk, you'd definitely notice a significant performance hit which is where adding more RAM makes sense but virtually no modern computers use HDDs for boot. SSDs are what makes the OS run fast with less RAM. 

Whoa! Now we get a hint that they've been testing since last summer. That is quite interesting since no one expected MacBook Pros to be released that soon (or M3 already in production by July)??? 

jimh2 said:

You know you have no shame when you do this and then brag about it and it shows just how out of touch with reality and self-consumed you are.

She said "perk of fame" which she clearly knows that reality is most don't get that opportunity.