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		fennecbutt on March 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip Think about what ram is used for. App binaries, sure. But most of what is stored in memory is content, video, image, file cache. These will not differ much from OS to OS, the only difference would be baseline memory usage before I start opening YouTube tabs.

w0m on March 6, 2024 [–]

This. Win 11 will run 'fine' on 8gb of ram also. It will also fall apart once you do ~anything other than browse the web just like modern OSX.

gs17 on March 6, 2024 | [–]

> just like modern OSX

But my MacBook only has an issue because the SSD is pathetically small. If I had the next tier up, it would be no issue.

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