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    Leviastin said:
    People do not understand how powerful this laptop is. Even with 8gb of ram the performance meets or exceeds what you can do on most intel laptops sold today with 16 or 32 gb of memory, with far better battery life. You can have 50+ tabs open and it does not even blink. And that’s with no fans.

    Performance tests show that unless you are doing professional video editing there are very limited use cases for more than 8gb of memory on the Mx platform. This architecture simply works differently regarding memory. Another thing to note is that the performance is nearly identical to m3 in real world use and I can almost guarantee you are looking at 8+ years of OS updates.

    For the average person or even power user on a budget, this is the laptop to get hands down.
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    Meh, macOS just hides loading screens better by making UI animations really slow. If you use Linux with both laptops the differences become more apparent, since Linux tends to feel much snappier than both Windows and macOS on the same hardware.

    The lack of fractional scaling in macOS makes graphics performance pretty terrible, while both Windows and Linux (KDE) have support for that.

    The memory architecture doesn't work "differently". It's not magic. macOS just uses memory compression, as do modern versions of Windows. Some Linux distributions also come with zram enabled by default -- you can always enable it elsewhere too.
     
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