• @gravitas_deficiency
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    692 months ago

    8 is fine for a tablet.

    8 is not fine for a brand-fucking new state of the art laptop.

      • @[email protected]
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        312 months ago

        The irony is that it’s arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.

        So if you’re watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.

      • @n3m37h
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        22 months ago

        That was just after face planting in a Scarface size pile of cocaine as is standard procedure with all apple marketing teams

    • Echo Dot
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      132 months ago

      It’s not even enough for a tablet and apple know it, which is why the iPad Pro has 16GB of RAM

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      8 GB is fine for a medium-priced laptop, where you can add more or at least swap out the existing stick for a bigger one if you ever need it.

    • @[email protected]
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      -32 months ago

      My iPad has 3GB RAM and honestly that’s enough. I don’t know what you do on your tablet, but for my everyday activities I have never felt limited

      • @Socsa
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        92 months ago

        iPads don’t really multitask so it is super easy to hide the low ram with swap.

      • @gravitas_deficiency
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        32 months ago

        We’re talking about laptops though. I was just using tablets as a comparison point.