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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 4 months ago by sverit@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 83 points 4 months ago (67 children)

imagine showing this post to someone in 1995

shit has gotten too bloated these days. i mean even in my head 8GB still sounds like 'a lot' of RAM and 16GB feels extravagant

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

You can always switch to a text based terminal and free up your memory. Just don't compain that YouTube doesn't play 4K videos anymore.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just don’t compain that YouTube doesn’t play 4K videos anymore.

strange, mpv handles it just fine

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

MPV doesn't work in terminal (well, technically it does, but what's the point of 4K HDR video in ASCII mode?). Please don't confuse terminal emulator in GUI mode with a real text mode terminal.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The point is that your example use case of "YouTube 4k videos" doesn't need a browser full of bloated js garbage.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The point is that MPV will use shitloads of memory too.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Actually lot less than the browser. Under 300MB, I just checked, and that's mostly just the network buffer which is 150MB by default.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

That's about what my Slack is using, while being written in Electron, lol. Oh, you people...

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

KMSDRM is in terminal enough for me. Fbcon too.

EDIT: obviously not dummy terminal over UART or like that.

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