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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple (www.macrumors.com)
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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,...

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ARM is pretty efficient, that's true. But an 8 gig video will always be an 8 gig video. No amount of processing and compression and swap tricks will make it occupy any less space without a massive hit to performance that an x86-64 arch with 16+GB of ram won't have to endure.

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uhh what? That's not how RAM works, you don't load an entire 8GB video you're playing into RAM.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You do if you’re editing it, and the editing capabilities are one of the main selling points of macOS

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When you have 64GB of RAM, you do.