Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC

Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by spacechild1 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:53AM (#38204366)

> "Actually 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently,"

Interesting. So my sound samples magically shrink by a factor of two?

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by jowea on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:54AM (#38204376)

You use the processor power to compress it 2x! /s

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by pornel on Thursday November 09, 2023 @08:21AM (#38204650)

They literally do. Since 10.9, before paging to disk, they try compress the memory instead.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/17/

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by spacechild1 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @08:42AM (#38204845)

As do Windows and Linux. Just in case someone takes this as a serious argument in favor of Apple :)

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by cesarb on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:06AM (#38205134)

> As do Windows and Linux

Just to nitpick, on Linux it depends on your distribution (or yourself) having enabled zram; some modern distributions enable it by default on recent releases, but yours might not have.

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by jowea on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:14AM (#38206029)

And for anyone who is on a distro who hasn't IMHO you absolute should enable it yourself on your personal machine unless you have 128GB or something.

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by ebb_earl_co on Thursday November 09, 2023 @11:16AM (#38206947)

I’m using Pop!_OS 22.04: how can I go about checking if this is enabled and enable it if not?

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by jowea on Thursday November 09, 2023 @01:19PM (#38208660)

Says here it's enabled by default now https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/104kbs4/zram_now_en...

You can run 'zramctl' to see the current status of the zram devices.

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