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[–] 68 points 2 years ago (5 children)

8 is fine for a tablet.

8 is not fine for a brand-fucking new state of the art laptop.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "With an apple silicon architecture, 8gb is like 16gb" -some stupid apple flunkey

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The irony is that it's arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.

    So if you're watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's because they think that people only do one thing at a time.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    My iPad has 3GB RAM and honestly that’s enough. I don’t know what you do on your tablet, but for my everyday activities I have never felt limited

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