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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by _gabe_ on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:47AM (#35424522)
> This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.

4GB of RAM.[0]

It's the stupid websites that require GB of RAM to display a couple pieces of written text and the hundreds of MB of JS that tally up to the additional 28GB you may be thinking of. Oh and all the electron apps which add additional browser requirements where there shouldn't be any. I guess Mac OS is somehow exempt from this particular fault though, I would be curious to know how they accomplished it.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/windows-...

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by babypuncher on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:08PM (#35428615)
What websites are you visiting that download hundreds of MB of Javascript?
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by avianlyric on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:02PM (#35430426)
> I guess Mac OS is somehow exempt from this particular fault though

MacOS isn’t, but Apple Silicon laptops sort of are. Seems the onboard flash and flash controller integrated into M1 and M2 chips are fast enough that disk paging doesn’t impact performance for most day-to-day task. I’ve personally been very surprised at how much performance Apple have squeezed out of 8GB of RAM, it’s certainly far more than I was accustomed to in the Intel era.

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by CryptoBanker on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:29PM (#35448559)
Truly, my M1 Air runs rings around my 16 inch i9 work laptop in day to day use
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