| ▲ | longislandguido 6 hours ago |
| I'm seeing a lot of "8GB ought to be enough for anybody" here over the last week.... |
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| ▲ | bombcar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Steam report is a good thing to look at: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=mac For Mac, 30% are at 8GB, 43% at 16GB. Windows has nearly nobody below 16GB (27%) and the biggest is 32GB (58%) |
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| ▲ | bobbob1921 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think it’s worth mentioning also- 8 GB ram on a Mac is not the same as 8 GB on a windows OS machine, given the poor state of windows as an OS as of the past few years. |
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| ▲ | longislandguido 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I forgot about magical Mac memory. Just keep it under one browser tab, bro. | | |
| ▲ | aurareturn 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It actually is magic Mac memory. No joke. 8GB on macOS is good enough for 80% of people. | | |
| ▲ | lukeschlather 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Do browsers and Electron apps magically take up less memory on Macs? What is "good enough?" I never notice problems on my 16GB Windows laptop, so just for fun I closed all of my 6 always-on Electron-type apps, all of the 10 browser windows I had open, a couple other ever-present apps, and it looks like without anything else Windows 10 takes about 4GB, which I think is in the same ballpark as OS X. And I probably have some stuff running that I didn't close, this is very unscientific. Anecdotally also, my one laptop that I've upgraded to Windows 11 is a lot snappier. As a rule I haven't noticed memory pressure on any device I've owned ever as a "regular user," it only really applies to gaming and heavy development with lots of VMs, especially these days. | | |
| ▲ | aurareturn 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Swap on macOS is incredibly good. Not sure how Apple does it. Maybe hardware compression? |
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| ▲ | dymk 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don’t see much “for anybody”, but I do see a lot of “for students / people who browse the web / word processing” which is still a pretty large set of people, and the Neo handles those workloads just fine |
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| ▲ | longislandguido 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Literally two comments above mine in this discussion: > The Neo is probably the best laptop for typical people. I rest my case. | | |
| ▲ | dymk 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | "students / web browsing / word processing" == typical people, but maybe that's my own biases |
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