Technology

59378 readers

2512 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

740

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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

277 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If you choose to be a weak little quiet corporate Stan then that's up to you. Apple is well aware that third party apps exist and they're well aware that machines with less ram will need replaced far sooner than machines with more. RAM is cheap and Apples intigrated memory is no different in the regard. The only reason to use less is planned obsolescence. If you don't believe that then you're either Tim Cook or you're an idiot.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What is the obsession with shitting on people's choices? I don't understand the irony of demanding choice in this industry, then shitting on people when they make a choice you don't agree with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What is the obsession with shitting on people’s choices?

As much as people want to act like they are better than they were, say, 100 years ago, it's not really true. Humans are really just advanced monkeys running around and very few can actually surpass that nature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This we can agree on.

load more comments (1 replies)