Comment by fragmede
20 hours ago
The MacBook Neo has only 8GiB of RAM. This is widely decried as not enough. The RAMpocalypse means that 8 GiB is going to have to be enough or else it'll eat into Apple's margins. The Neos are wildly popular though because people have used it and 8 GiB is fine. So while the singular weather app being smaller itself isn't material, in aggregate, macOS being more efficient is something that lets Apple sell a lower spec product while still justifying a higher price and thus better margins for Apple.
Let's not ignore the new "windows copilot laptops" that come with 4GiB.
https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/defitsit-pamyati-zastavi...
Insanity. 4GB was often not enough even back in late Windows 7 era.
4GB is completely fine in Windows 7.
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Apple has been using the "macOS is more efficient" excuse since the early 2000s to justify skimping on RAM.
> The MacBook Neo has only 8GiB of RAM. This is widely decried as not enough.
Bwahahah!
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