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Hell single core is faster than the M3. I think multi core is isn't far off of M1 or M2 iirc, same with GPU.
Yeah just having actual colors is gonna be a huge deal. Plus the new factor, particularly easy/regular store availability vs random old stock or used older devices.
I think this is a reasonable take. AI has taken some wild turns for better or worse, who knows where it'll go and how things might get implemented in hopefully actual useful ways. Otherwise...for general use it'll still be a faster chip, which can be useful for games or whatever beyond basic media.
Oh, I was referring to this classic Simpsons scene where nerds get caught up on minutiae. Nothing like us, not at all!
The thing about this sort of analysis is that it far overestimates the ability of Basic Users™ to avoid straining the resources on their machines. Some of them never close a tab and end up with 10 browser windows with 40 tabs each; some end up running all the Office apps right next to multiple browsers running the Google equivalents; some are saddled by their workplaces with Electron vertical apps that use 2 GB of RAM by themselves for no reason at all. And those users don't say to themselves "Oh, I'm doing more than I thought with my computer and it doesn't have much RAM," they just say "my Mac is so slow and bogs down every time I change windows." And that's not great for the ecosystem. During RAMpocalypse the PCs available may have the same constraint, but in a normal RAM price environment you'd have 16 GB in your choice of $699 Windows laptops.
Agreed. I have no one in my life who both a) aren’t computer savvy enough to know anything about their RAM needs and also b) use computers hard enough to need more RAM. I have plenty of people in my life who have no idea what RAM is. I have plenty of people who use computers hard enough to need more RAM. I don’t have any where those two traits overlap.
On my phone I often forget (because I don't use tabs that much) that I have eleventy-billion tabs open and then just close them all when I realize it. I also don't force close apps unless they're misbehaving. My iPhone works just fine and it just so happens to have an even older A17 inside.
If this feature existed on Mac Safari, especially if it were active by default, I think RAM requirements for many users would legitimately be less.
I disagree that macOS handles it as well as iOS. I've personally watched intense swapping (enough to cause seconds of delay) occur on my wife's 24 GB M4 MBP, with nothing open other than Teams, Zoom, Slack, MS Office apps, Chrome with a few Google Docs tabs... and a dozen Safari windows with at least 40 tabs each. Her MO is to open a tab for every new browsing idea, and to open a new window when the tabs are numerous enough that the tab bar starts scrolling. When the delays hit, she sheepishly says "I guess I should close some tabs" and then proceeds not to do so.
"That's like, your opinion, man."
osascript -e{'set text item delimiters to linefeed','tell app"google chrome"to url of tabs of windows as text'} | wc -l
I'm sorry, but if you have a dozen windows with 40 tabs each open -- nearly 500 tabs total -- I have some sympathy for the computer struggling a bit.
Research. Tabs are a modern version of the table filled with tomes and notebooks and index cards.
Yes, but in my case I would to do "research" to even find the tab again. I periodically gravitate that is research oriented like DevonThink, but I honestly don't have anything that requires that many tabs.
I would, but I have a bigger problem, once the tabs are small enough I can only see 2-3 letters - I compulsively start closing them. It's an OCD thing.
My tab maximum usually comes after hitting it the news, opening each article I want to read in its own tab while drilling down the front page, then closing the front page and going through each article and closing them as I go. On a busy news day I can get up to 20 or 30, then whittle it back down.
That’s less than I paid for my iPad… And this fall you’ll be able to spec a foldable iPhone to be more than that.was mulling something today: With the debut of the Neo, Apple now has a value-price-positioned-product (alliteration!) in every segment. You can walk into an Apple Store and commit fully to the Apple ecosystem, all four categories—Mac Neo, Apple Watch SE, iPad, and 'E' iPhone—for under $2000 ($1796, to be exact). Doing so gives up certain features and capabilities, yes, but none of the ecosystem advantages. Each device works independently, and together, just as well as the most luxe option in each category does.
I wager that's less than every one of us active in this thread spent on our most-used Mac alone.
Your wife's MO is the digital equivalent of someone like me, who "cleans" his house by stuffing things into closets until they're full, and then starts complaining that the house doesn't have enough closets. You can have storage the size of an Amazon warehouse and it would still ultimately not be enough. At some point tab hoarders needs to have someone force them come to terms with their sloppiness, just as my wife made me fit my stuff within what we already have.
Not until the ultimate Apple TV for gaming, Apple TV Championship Edition.
I'll get back to them eventually! As long as the page doesn't wipe from existence entirely it's fine. Generally anything where I'm worried about state (like this tab) I'm taking care of at the moment and don't need to worry about it getting flushed out...barring opening a bunch of other tabs for reference or whatever.
