News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO by alwillis on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:05PM (#47354853)
> You can tell when you hit swap, and it doesn’t matter what Mac OS X is designed to do, when you hit swap, you hit swap. When you’re hitting swap a lot, you’re hitting swap a lot.

I have a 16GB M1 Pro machine from 2021 with 200 GB/s memory bandwidth; I can't tell when it's hitting swap, even with tons of browser tabs open, 3 or 4 terminal sessions, and several apps running. I often run two browsers with dozens of tabs open and there's no noticeable lag.

YMMV.

On an my old Intel Mac, it was pretty obvious.

There are no comments on this comment yet.