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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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[–] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 206 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I think they simply mean analogous in price.

[–] Gnonpi@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (8 children)

The interviewee seems to be meaning it as memory usage (quote from them): "Comparing our memory to other system's memory actually isn't equivalent, because of the fact that we have such an efficient use of memory, and we use memory compression, and we have a unified memory architecture.

Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently."

[–] Rexios@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If anything the memory being unified between the GPU and CPU makes it even less than 8GB equivalent

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Wait, unified VRAM? This is even worse. I thought that they meant all CPU cores share same bus.

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