Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak

Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by bipson on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:18AM (#27231643)

For Apple Laptops, more like 7-8, at least in the old days.

Typically you would only replace them when they (gradually) became annoyingly slow for daily use.

Agreed, I had to upgrade all of of my PowerBooks/MacBooks at some point with RAM and larger HDDs/SSDs.

And my last Apple Laptop is from 2012 and I learned that Apple now drops support by the OS considerably earlier than in the old days (i.e. unecesarily early, most 8-10 year old MacBooks would be perfectly fine for daily use, but now unsafe) - at least that was my impression.

And installing Linux on them is always a mixed bag (fans, trackpad, etc.), even though it sure is better with Intel Macs.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by asddubs on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:42AM (#27233280)

I bought a macbook air in ~2012 and it was unusably slow after a year. bought a thinkpad to put linux on after that that I'm still using today (although admittedly it's a bit of a wreck now - still, it lasted for 8 years)

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by bipson on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:53AM (#27233391)

The MacBook Air was not really a "high performance" machine to start with though - you can't compare that with a ThinkPad :)

And it was seldomly updated, so you could get very aged specs.

If you bought a MacBook 2011/2012 you would typically get an HDD and between 4 and 8GB RAM. Software requirements/demands sky-rocketed shortly after that. On a non-Air you could at least upgrade this yourself, which gave the machine new life ("just like new")

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by asddubs on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:19AM (#27234272)

it did have a 128gb ssd. The thinkpad was also an x1 carbon (also 4gb of ram), so it had a similar form factor, not sure about cpu specs, I probably should have mentioned that.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by unfunco on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:41AM (#27233875)

I bought the 2011 MacBook Air 11" and it still performs really well for everyday tasks, probably the best computer I've ever owned.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by asddubs on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:21AM (#27234308)

Interesting, I wonder why mine slowed down so much then. From what I remember it was after an OS upgrade, it was my first time trying a mac, and I ended up being disappointed and going back to linux, but I also didn't do a deep dive into figuring out the reasons for it.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by sgerenser on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:14PM (#27236906)

I believe the 2011 era MacBook Air (EveryMac.com confirms only the 11”) had an entry level 2GB RAM variant. That one probably got pretty painful after just a couple OS updates.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by jtbayly on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:11PM (#27235913)

Shouldn’t be unsafe. Security updates are still coming out for the older OS that runs on these machines.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by bipson on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:41PM (#27238138)

That is not true AFAIK

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by jtbayly on Saturday May 22, 2021 @06:17PM (#27250763)

Sorry. I guess I got the year wrong. I’ve got an MBP from ‘12 still getting security updates.

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by dagmx on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:25AM (#27234361)

AFAIK other than the 32 bit devices and some with smaller vram, all Intel Macs are still supported

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by bipson on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:42PM (#27238152)

This is not true at all.

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