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Which macbook is best with battery and speakers ? I want to buy to watch movies and web surfing (alien.top)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lol, how is telling people to get 16GB of RAM shilling? Sure, in his use case 8GB should be enough but investing a bit more in 16GB will only bring benefits in the long term. I have a 16GB M2 and it uses up to 11GB of RAM with 2 tabs of Safari, Spotify and Obsidian open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Because he doesn’t need 16gb of ram.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

MacOS doesn't use RAM as windows does, the more you have, the more that'll be used. In MacOS unused RAM is wasted ram, you'll be using more with 16GB as a buffer and with caching, an 8GB M1 Air is a perfect spec, still can do video and photo editing with it too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Windows does the exact same thing and has for 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Windows does caching, buffers and compression, but doesn’t saturate RAM the same as a Unix/Linux or MacOS based system.