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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:47PM (#25055006)
Yes, largely because two of those are (bad) Electron apps that eat way more memory than they have any right to.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by sincerely on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:31PM (#25055502)
What is the person buying a laptop supposed to do about that?
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by NikolaNovak on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:56AM (#25058398)
Oh, I don't disagree even remotely! We can have a nice thread about optimized apps and 4k demos :)

But in context of expectations in the $1k laptop market, my point was that perfectly normal usage can grow to benefit from over 8GB of RAM these days, whatever the background reasons may be.

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