Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li...
by solarkraft on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:00PM
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They're kind of right.
They work differently from what you're probably used to from older/different systems.
They don't run into a brick wall when swapping, in fact they swap all the time (very heavily; a lot of a running Application can be swapped-out on normal use). You're never really "out of RAM", you're just increasing memory pressure which gradually impacts the system's responsiveness.
Though I might add is that at some point they do fail catastrophically (extreme lag sometimes leading to crashes) once the pressure goes into the red.
They work differently from what you're probably used to from older/different systems.
They don't run into a brick wall when swapping, in fact they swap all the time (very heavily; a lot of a running Application can be swapped-out on normal use). You're never really "out of RAM", you're just increasing memory pressure which gradually impacts the system's responsiveness.
Though I might add is that at some point they do fail catastrophically (extreme lag sometimes leading to crashes) once the pressure goes into the red.