Technology

59568 readers

3634 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

593

Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Dragxito@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

314 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

[–] T156@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The irony is that it's arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.

So if you're watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.

[–] echodot 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's because they think that people only do one thing at a time.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

New feature turns off the screen to flush graphics memory so the cpu can process data.

[–] Darkenfolk@dormi.zone 12 points 7 months ago

The "touch grass" mode.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

They certainly don't want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple