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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]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17264153

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Link without adblock harassment:

https://archive.is/bUoQ2

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Err, I mean completely regardless of whether I think 8GB is enough or not, they didn't admit anything of the sort:

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.

(Emphasis mine.)

Not being able to run "AI" predictive code completion with 8GB doesn't mean they're "admitting" jack shit.

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

So basically the old “if you don’t know what RAM is, 8 is enough”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Yeah this kind of reporting just makes me scratch my head. Just blatantly trying to farm clicks from apple haters lol