8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro ‘Analogous to 16GB’ on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,…

  • @olympicyes
    link
    English
    2211 months ago

    Lower end macs tend to have slower SSDs so this could be a double whammy on these machines.

      • @uis
        link
        English
        -111 months ago

        But memory compression works the same way swap works. When memory is needed LRU page is written on disk compressed, and where application needs to read data from compressed page it generates pagefault and OS loads(decompresses) page in memory. That’s it.

        • @Buddahriffic
          link
          English
          211 months ago

          It can be compressed in RAM, too.

          • @uis
            link
            English
            011 months ago

            Thanks, cap, this is what I said.