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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opens chrome on a 8GB Mac. Sees lifespan of SSD being reduced by 50%. After 2-3 years of heavy usage SSD starts to get errors. Apple solution: buy a new one. No wonder they are 2nd/3rd wealthiest company on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

buy a new one.

Buy a new SSD and swap out the old one?

...buy a new SSD, right??

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SSD is soldered to the board. With only 8GB you'll be using the swap partiton a lot so for anything exceeding 8GB of RAM you will be using the SSD as a slower "RAM" which will wear it's lifespan down by constantly writing/reading into it' s swap partition.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“tHATs nOT tRuE the aRCHiteCTuRe iS cOmPlETlY dIffErEnT!!!!!1!11!!ONEONE!!!” <— Apple fanboys when this was predicted on launch of the M1 🤖

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The only people more cultish than Apple fans are Tesla/Elongated Muskrat fans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You don't get the most valuable company by selling a SSD. So, yeah a new Mac of course.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well they do charge particularly hard for SSDs as well. They've found a way to eat the cake twice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Oh, my sweet summer child...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think SSDs are also soldered to the mainboard on most apple products.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The Mac Studio uses a standard NVMe SSD but if you replace it with anything that you didn't buy from Apple with a 500%+ markup, the new drive simply won't work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nah ur nat doin that with apple. Cmon just buy a new PC! Wa don car abt the env! Who cares anyway! Cmon not that expensive