Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by kolinko on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:22AM
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I have four browser windows filled crazy number of tabs on M1. I’m yet to experience any slowdowns.
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by mrweasel on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:03AM
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You’re right, I can’t mentally deal with more a few open tabs and I use none of those webapps at home. I might be an outline in the other direction, but there’s a lot of room between using maybe 4GB of RAM in total an using that for a browser alone.
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by beagle3 on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:36AM
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Auto-tab-discard on Firefox is your friend. Makes thousands of tabs possible with almost no memory use and seamless functionality.
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by oblio on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:50AM
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I do visit 20-40 of those tabs regularly. They're SPAs so they use up a lot of memory.
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by beagle3 on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:51PM
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How often? I set mine to discard after 60 minutes, except for slack, WhatsApp and a couple of others; cost is reload when I do venture into discarded tabs - e.g. I scan HN and Reddit headlines in the morning, open each interesting comments page in a tab; much later, when I have downtime, I visit them - but I used to reload to get the new comments. Now with ATD, they get reloaded automatically, so for that use it is even bette than the real thing.
I can't even remember a time when just my web browser used up less than 4-5 GB of RAM, on its own.
Add at least 500MB - 1 GB for the OS itself, and we're talking about 2 - 3.5GB for apps. I'd immediately swap with just 8GB of RAM with an IDE and a DB running.