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Re:8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Cla... by nullindividual on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:15PM (#38199182)
> You don't know what you're saying. That's because of virtual memory and its much slower.

All memory is virtualized by the operating system; applications don't 'see' physical address space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory

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