I’m excited that Apple now has a reason to keep MacOS small. Their soon to be top-selling machine has 8GB and they won’t want to make all those millions of Neos unusable by shipping a bloated OS.

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alwillis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wrote about how Unified Memory, SSD directly attached to the SoC and Apple's use of real-time compression saves memory, reduces power consumption and wear on SSDs [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354705

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vbezhenar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

MacOS has always been incredibly bloated.

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numpad0 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

9.2.2 wasn't

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LoganDark 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's a difference between bloated and batteries included. From a development point of view, macOS has native system libraries for things no other platform seems to include native system libraries for. And by "native system libraries" I do not mean downloadable content, dynamic support or anything similar, even if they're first-party. Though having unremovable system apps for every one of Apple's services MAY count as bloated if you don't use them.

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p_ing 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The definition of bloat is something that you don’t use, even if someone else does.

	▲	phs318u 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There’s a big difference between unnecessary applications taking up space on your storage device, and unnecessary services running in the background competing for RAM and CPU with the applications you actually want to run.