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Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Apple exec doesn't actually understand how computers work and think that that actually might be a reasonable arguement.

It doesn't matter how good your processor is if you can only bank 8 GB of something into memory it's going to be slow. The only way an 8 GB device would beat a 16 GB device would be if the 16 GB device had the world's slowest processor. Like something from 2005. Taking stuff out of RAM is the single slowest operation you can perform other than loading from a hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Apple exec doesn't actually understand how computers work and think that that actually might be a reasonable arguement

I think a lot of Apple users fit this bill too so it doesn't matte much if this is the messaging, a fair amount of people will believe it.