Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by nojito on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:34AM (#26913610)

> This in the time when 16 gigs ram is the baseline if you plan to do anything more than facebook and instagram.

You'd be shocked looking at any telemetry data which says that the average ram is 8gb and average ram use is ~50% or so.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by GordonS on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:49AM (#26913728)

I'd believe that - because the average user likely doesn't do anything more than Facebook, Instagram, general browsing, word processing etc.

I'd also believe it, since the number of laptops available with only 8GB of RAM is ridiculous - I swear it's because more prevelant in the past few years, presumably because of RAM prices.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by astrange on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:00AM (#26913805)

RAM use should always be 100% for reasonable definitions of "use". There's always more disk pages to be cached unless the machine has just booted. If they're not all being used, it means something temporarily flushed all the pages which is actually a bad thing.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by runeks on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:43AM (#26914147)

I think it’s reasonable to assume that OP was talking about user space applications, not kernel disk cache.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by astrange on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:37PM (#26918933)

Adding up the memory use of apps isn’t actually a good way to calculate RAM needs though. It undercounts (because file caching matters too) and overcounts (because many things are fine swapped out).

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