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 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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