In Defense of RAM

Re:In Defense of RAM by linmob on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:21PM (#38130966)

8 GB RAM is not even enough to do Pro-level web-browsing, so I do agree, this new 14" Macbook Pro is a joke - and let's not forget that swapping can't be good for the storage you can't replace.

I don't think upgradable RAM is coming back to Apple Silicon Macs. Upgradable storage, maybe; and there might be a use for standard RAM as a faster Swap, e.g., in a Mac Pro, to have 256 GB of super fast unified RAM and additional TBs of DIMMs for workloads that need that.

Nitpick: Something is off with the timeline of M2 Pro Macbook Pro ownership mentioned in the article ("Two years ago, I got a 14” MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro processor and 16 GB of RAM.") M2 Pro Macbook Pro were only introduced in January 2023.

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Re:In Defense of RAM by throwaway49594 on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:26PM (#38131026)

A 'pro' machine should probably have more RAM than a Raspberry Pi.

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Re:In Defense of RAM by linmob on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:58PM (#38131563)

True, since as long as it's a Raspberry Pi, not a Raspberry Pro. ;-)

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Re:In Defense of RAM by rascul on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:33PM (#38134614)

What is Pro-level web-browsing?

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Re:In Defense of RAM by cozzyd on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:12PM (#38137802)

when you have 100 datasheets open at once in your browser...

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Re:In Defense of RAM by figassis on Saturday November 04, 2023 @06:35AM (#38139727)

When you have multiple Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket + Slack + Jenkins + Google Meet + Figma + all the other spyware your employer installs on your computer, like Kandji, Cisco endpoint security, etc.

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