Eugenia LMar 14

The Macbook Neo is a great product, except the amount of RAM. At 8 GB with MacOS, you are constantly, and I mean, constantly swapping. It' just not enough. It's enough for Linux (although it lately has become bloated too; Fedora/Ubuntu need 4 GB for an equivalent experience), but MacOS needs a lot of tightening to get such a product out of the door and call it a day with so little RAM.

RAM, RAM, RAM. Only thing that matters on a computer.

#apple #macbookneo #macbook #linux #macos #mac #laptop

Show threadEugenia LMar 14
I'd say that for Macbook Neo to make sense, it would require 12 GB of RAM. MacOS uses about 9 GB of RAM with a single Chrome tab open here. It used to be 6 GB I remember, it's now at around 9 GB (after a couple days of usage at least, not cold boot). Nothing else is open. 8 GB is just not enough, and I'm talking about normal internet usage here, not 4k video editing or Blender.
Show threadKen MilmoreMar 14
@eugenialoli It's not the RAM, its the operating system. My computer is using about 1.7GiB typing this. (Debian trixie Xfce desktop, Firefox ESR).
Show threadEugenia LMar 14

@kbm0 Well, yes, but MacOS is what it is. In the history of computing no one went back to truly optimize their OS, because it makes no financial or time-engineering sense. Not even Linux distros have done that. So Apple won't do that either. So in that sense, it IS the RAM.

BTW, Arch with XFce takes 550 MB of RAM here on a cold boot. Although I'm primarily a Debian-testing user.

Show threadKen MilmoreMar 14
@eugenialoli Now you've got me wondering why my desktop is wasting so much memory! 😆 Looks like the whisker menu and panel plugins use about 50MiB each for a start.
Show threadEugenia L
@kbm0 I run these two. Debian just uses more ram for other things.
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