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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 6 months ago by sverit@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

8GB of dedicated VRAM is hardly enough these days...

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Especially with 4k

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

4k rendering or 4k textures?

[–] fishbone@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

This is my biggest lament about getting a 2060 without knowing how important vram is. I can make it perform better and more efficiently a bunch of different ways, but to my knowledge, I can't get around the 6GB vram wall.