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16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Ironically, it's the other way around, since Apple has to share their RAM between GPU and CPU, where other computers typically have them separately.

So in normal usage with 8 GB, you're automatically down to 7, since at least 1GB would be taken by the graphics card. More if you're doing anything reasonably graphics-heavy with it.