Apple's new MacBook Pro models are powered by cutting-edge M3 Apple silicon, but the base configuration 14-inch model starting at $1,599...

8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests::Apple’s new MacBook Pro models are powered by cutting-edge M3 Apple silicon, but the base configuration 14-inch model starting at $1,599…

  • Darken@reddthat.comEnglish
    523·
    8 months ago

    Um actthually mac is so oPtimized so 1gb mac = 12.3gb windows 🤓

    STFU it physically has less ram than a potato while costing the price of a nasa rocket

    • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      8 months ago

      Also Apple™ RAM costs like 4 to 8 times as much. Being $200 for 8GB. So assuming fantasy land Apple™ iMagic™ means 8GB = 16GB it’s still a minimum of twice the cost per dollar

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        141·
        8 months ago

        Apple ram actually is just more dense. They can fit more binary in each gigabyte.

        • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          Ok, so a tech neophyte here so please dont crucify me. Would that not be adding more transistors to the ram? And, would that not affect clock speed?

          • sergih@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            an explanation of the joke :D, he is saying more binary in a gigabyte, I get what u mean with the transistors but he aint talking about that, he talks about being able to fit more data (binary, the raw data, ones and zeroes) in the same space (one gigabyte, like 1024^9 or around 1billions spaces for the ones and zerors) bc ofc, it’s apple so they somehow can save morr info in the same amount of space, that’s whatvhe meant :)

            • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              8 months ago

              Thanks for the clarification! I appreciate it. I guess I was equating the binary, ones and zeroes, to the transistor gates either been on or off. Again, thank you!

      • sergih@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        and if u spend another 200 it goes from 16 to 32, so apparrntly somehow 8gb can cost 200 or 100 bc apple

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      145·
      8 months ago

      Who mentioned Windows??

      Did you watch the video? The 8GB model is like 1/4 the speed of the 16GB model.

      It’s a bottleneck, clear as day. I just thought it was funny that Apple is so stingy that they’d even consider putting an offensive 8GB of ram on this laptop.

      • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        Apple did https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/08/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-like-16-gb-pc/

        It’s not directly mentioned in this conversation, but the excuse as to why they put such a pathetic amount of RAM in the laptop is that “Macs use it more efficiently”

        edit: The quote is “Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently.”

        • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
          12·
          8 months ago

          Apple being apple… marketing at it’s worst.

          Sure, it’s “more efficient” than other operating systems if you want to look at how much space is being utilized, but other operating systems don’t seem to have the same catastrophic performance bottlenecks as this apple laptop apparently does.

          The fact that going from 8gb to 16gb improves system performance by 4-5x is something you’d never see happen in a “less efficient” operating system, so what’s Apple’s excuse for using it?