8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple

Technology@lemmy.world – 246 points – 11 months ago

8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,...

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Lower end macs tend to have slower SSDs so this could be a double whammy on these machines.

I’m specifically talking about the in memory compression, not swap.

But memory compression works the same way swap works. When memory is needed LRU page is ~~written on disk~~ compressed, and where application needs to read data from compressed page it generates pagefault and OS loads(decompresses) page in memory. That's it.

It can be compressed in RAM, too.

Thanks, cap, this is what I said.