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0 pointskllrnohj5y ago0 comments

Macs have had fast SSDs for a while and as you say compression has also been done for a long time. M1 made no difference whatsoever to memory usage. The posts similar to above seem to just be an attempt to fanfic-justify what's an actual regression for some.

For many people 16GB is absolutely enough, and Apple had to start somewhere. But if 16GB wasn't enough for you yesterday, it isn't enough for you now.

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chongli5y ago· 2 in thread

The reviews of the M1 MacBook Air and Pro show a dramatic increase in SSD read/write speeds over the 2020 Intel models.

kllrnohjOP5y ago

Do you have a link? MKBD just said it was "slightly faster" than his comparison system and the numbers for the M1 appear to be around 3GB/s reads and 2.7GB/s writes in disk speed test, which is pretty typical of a last generation NVME drive (current pcie gen4 drives are hitting 7GB/s reads & 5GB/s writes)

chongli5y ago

which is pretty typical of a last generation NVME drive

Those numbers are about 2-3x as fast as what my 2020 Intel-based MacBook Air gets.

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foldr5y ago

It's possible that M1 has enabled the use of better memory compression algorithms.

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