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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)
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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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[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months 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.

[–] maxinstuff@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

No you don't understand the architecture is different and so the laws of physics don't apply. Constantly energizing and de-energizing capacitors can only increase life expectancy, everyone knows that.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

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