OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe comments on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

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[–] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 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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[–] arin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

New feature turns off the screen to flush graphics memory so the cpu can process data.

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[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 12 points 2 years ago

The "touch grass" mode.

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[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

They certainly don't want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

That was just after face planting in a Scarface size pile of cocaine as is standard procedure with all apple marketing teams

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