Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel...
by coldtea on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:34AM
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>Apple is pretty good at the planned obsolescence game
If that's their game, they are terrible at it.
Seeing that Macs hold their resale value for longer, for mobile they release iOS updates for longer than any other Android vendor, and so on.
What Apple is good at is making the product an "Apple only can fix/change" affair. But that's not the same as planned obsolescence game.
>With a maximum memory size of 8G it's a bit anemic
Is it? The majority of non-Apple laptops in 2021 are sold at 8G and below. And for people's use (web, surfing, email, Slack, Zoom, regular apps, etc) that the Air and smaller MBPs are aimed at, that has always been plenty.
(In fact, outside of video, audio, 3D, VM, and number crunching work, it's crazy that people would need more than that for the same stuff, computationaly wise, we did 10-15 years ago with much less RAM - blame Electron).
And 16GB and below is something like the 95% percentile or above.
If that's their game, they are terrible at it.
Seeing that Macs hold their resale value for longer, for mobile they release iOS updates for longer than any other Android vendor, and so on.
What Apple is good at is making the product an "Apple only can fix/change" affair. But that's not the same as planned obsolescence game.
>With a maximum memory size of 8G it's a bit anemic
Is it? The majority of non-Apple laptops in 2021 are sold at 8G and below. And for people's use (web, surfing, email, Slack, Zoom, regular apps, etc) that the Air and smaller MBPs are aimed at, that has always been plenty.
(In fact, outside of video, audio, 3D, VM, and number crunching work, it's crazy that people would need more than that for the same stuff, computationaly wise, we did 10-15 years ago with much less RAM - blame Electron).
And 16GB and below is something like the 95% percentile or above.