An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by seanalexander on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:48PM (#27877381)

I'm eager to see what can be done with the desktop tower workstation post-M1. I don't think anyone actually wants to have a slim laptop and use "the cloud" to "download more memory" but here we are in 2021 where people are saying 16gb max ram is good.

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by SilverRed on Sunday July 18, 2021 @09:50PM (#27878443)

>but here we are in 2021 where people are saying 16gb max ram is good.

No amount of memory will be good. The problem is not memory but inefficient programming. Desktop apps consume as much memory as possible. The only way to have a good experience is to have more memory than the average user. But then the average user catches up and you need even more memory.

Right now I have ms teams running in the background purely to receive notifications and it is using over 1GB of memory and 8% of my cpu to show me a notification window when I get a message. MS teams on my 3gb ram iphone does exactly the same job and uses no memory and no power because it doesn't even have to run to show me notifications.

I have 32GB on my laptop and I am only just above the average now but in a few years electron will have ballooned so far that 64 is the new minimum. While my 3gb iphone and 8gb ipad feel more than enough.

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by skydhash on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:18PM (#27877952)

Tell that to my friends whose main softwares are chrome, office and vlc.

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