M4 Mac mini's efficiency

Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by talldayo on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:06PM (#42120899)

> € 230,00 for +8 MB RAM?! There are places you can get that for a tenth of that price.

"Comparing our memory to other system's memory actually isn't equivalent [...] because of the fact that we have such an efficient use of memory, and we use memory compression, and we have a unified memory architecture."

- Bob Borchers, Apple vice president of worldwide product marketing (who apparently never heard of zram)

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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by throawayonthe on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:19PM (#42121038)

windows also uses memory compression

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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by FireBeyond on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:23PM (#42122588)

Yeah, that doesn't explain why the Intel Mac Pro cheesegrater wanted $3,000 for 160GB of socketed RAM that OWC would sell from the same manufacturer, same speeds, for $1,000 for 192GB.

Sorry Bob, architecture may be different now, but Apple has always been egregious.

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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by MonkeyClub on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:28PM (#42122611)

But what's the point in Borcher's comment? Because there's efficient software use of memory, it's legitimate to put a tenfold price marker on the hardware?

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