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0 pointsyumraj3y ago0 comments

I don't how/why/where these myths have been perpetuated from that Apple Silicon Macs magically needs less RAM or magically Apple Silicon Macs are better at memory management.

Software didn't start needing less RAM. All that changed is that RAM and SSD speeds became much faster which allowed for faster swap which reduced the perceived impact of low RAM. If you watch the Activity Monitor, Memory would run into yellow all the time with 8GB machines.

So, you still need RAM based on the use case, Intel or Apple Silicon, and if you pair low RAM with small SSD, you'll just wear out the SSD sooner.

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acchow3y ago

> I don't how/why/where these myths have been perpetuated from that Apple Silicon Macs magically needs less RAM or magically Apple Silicon Macs are better at memory management.

It depends. For the Intel macbook pros, the GPUs had their own separate memory. For the intel macbook airs, the graphics could use up to 1.5GB of the system memory (so your 8GB MBA could have as little as 6.5GB of system memory)

The unified memory model in M1 means the graphics can hopefully eat up less RAM since data from the system memory can be read directly by the graphics chip (no need to copy from system memory into graphics-reserved memory)

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