• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    MacOS has weirdly fast paging and shit, you don’t feel the lack of RAM immediately. But in the long run it’ll kill your (also soldered) SSD so that’s even worse for heavy users.

    I think phone apps have more to play with as well nowadays. A Galaxy A55 can have 12 gigs of RAM now. That used to be considered overkill for even flagships, let alone midrange phones, just a few years ago. Plus both operating systems will suspend apps running in the background when needed.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      My phone is pretty recent and has 8GB RAM, and it’s still fairly common to find phones with 4GB RAM. You really can’t rely on a consistent amount of RAM, so being careful with memory is still important.