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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:24:05 -0700
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On 2024-03-09 07:27, Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2024-03-09 07:49, Bud Frede wrote:
>> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 2024-03-06 17:24, Alan wrote:
>>>> On 2024-03-06 14:14, Alan Browne wrote:
>>> claimed with a (large) grain of salt.
>>>>>
>>>>> Imagine my consternation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fact is I have an Apple Silicon iMac and the numbers are plain to see.
>>>>>
>>>> The numbers are what you CLAIM to have seen...
>>>> ...but won't show screenshots to corroborate.
>>>
>>> I have no obligation to do so.
>>>
>>> What you can do is go get your self an Apple Si Mac and see for 
>>> yourself.
>>
>> I myself would not find 8GB RAM to be enough. However, my wife finds it
>> to be quite usable on her M1 Macbook Air.
>>
>> I do prefer more storage than 256GB, but my work MBPs have only had that
>> much the past several iterations and it's been fine. (I store most
>> things for work in cloud storage that my workplace provides.)
>>
>> Theoretically, the tight coupling of CPU, GPU, RAM, and SSD on Apple
>> Silicon makes it less sensitive to limited amounts of RAM, but we're not
> 
> It's not all that fantastic as my experience in same setup v. memory 
> allocation shows.
> 
> Past architectures (lower end intel) already had GPU using main memory 
> on the order of 1 - 2 GB.  Other devices used memory mapped IO to some 
> extent.  Of course the current memory bandwidth is very high, so that is 
> good.
> 
> Apple Si "upped the ante" - but the hype from Apple hasn't stood testing.

Testing you won't actually show...