Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by matkoniecz on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:32AM (#26913179)

You mentioned "they come with blazingly fast SSDs" as part of what is "allowing devices to get away with less available memory"

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by PartiallyTyped on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:03AM (#26913406)

I did indeed, I never said that SSDs are a replacement for RAM, I just said that having access to 2.5GiB/s RW operations allows you to offload many things into the SSD, yes, thrashing is an issue, but it is much more insignificant at those speeds than disks.

I am not defending apple in any way whatsoever, I even mentioned in the first sentence of the comment. I stated that they are able to do that because they compensate with compression and SSDs, applications in the background can be thrown in the swap and the user will rarely notice.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by detaro on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:49AM (#26913725)

2.5GB/s isn't really all that extraordinary speed anymore.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by astrange on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:02AM (#26913822)

The part you're skipping over is the memory compression, which is much more important than you think it is.

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