Quote from: nattopasta on March 11, 2024, 04:28:07I see, thanks. It is a shame that Apple is so anti-consumer with its policies regarding Ram. Usually I use ThinkPads so this would be a big change for me, but recently Lenovo has been moving towards being more and more Apple-like as everything is soldered as well, so I might as well take advantage of the superior efficiency of the M-Chips and get the great battery life.Not all ThinkPads but mostly those with "s" (T14s and such) and from the X1 lineup. New T14 Gen 5 has two RAM slots 🙂
Quote from: NikoB on March 11, 2024, 13:20:32All this fuss is uninteresting as tests in incomparable code environments.
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But the memory controller also consumes. And you have to pay for everything...
Quote from: Neenyah on March 09, 2024, 13:14:07Quote from: nattopasta on March 09, 2024, 11:15:42Would you recommend an M2 with 24 GB and 1 TB or an M3 with 16 GB and 512, if both could be had for the same price? Tasks include a lot of multitasking, coding and maybe app development and trying out some AI/ML in the future. Would one of the 8GB/256 versions be enough for these as well?M2, obviously. You get 33.3% less RAM/UM with the M3, you get 50% less storage. You don't get 33.3% to 50% more performance with it or that much better battery life to sacrifice all the additional memory in the M2.
Now if it was a 24/512 M1 (yes I know it doesn't exist but for the sake of point) against the mentioned 16/512 M3 then clearly the M3 because it is quite faster despite the M1 still being a little speedy demon.
8/256 just avoid, that's money wasted especially with your mentioned needs and use cases. If it was 8/1TB then fine but this is pointless when tablets have more RAM and storage for less money.
Quote from: nattopasta on March 09, 2024, 11:15:42trying out some AI/ML in the future. Would one of the 8GB/256 versions be enough for these as well?
Quote from: nattopasta on March 09, 2024, 11:15:42Would you recommend an M2 with 24 GB and 1 TB or an M3 with 16 GB and 512, if both could be had for the same price? Tasks include a lot of multitasking, coding and maybe app development and trying out some AI/ML in the future. Would one of the 8GB/256 versions be enough for these as well?M2, obviously. You get 33.3% less RAM/UM with the M3, you get 50% less storage. You don't get 33.3% to 50% more performance with it or that much better battery life to sacrifice all the additional memory in the M2.
Quote from: NikoB on March 09, 2024, 12:53:46But it is much more interesting in reviews of Apple laptops to see a test of the memory controller, including its operation with 4k pages in random access. And what do we see here? And we still see the same shame of the latest SSDs, which are more than 100 times (here real 174 times slower for installed SSD) slower at 4k IOPs than RAM.
Do you see what I'm getting at?
Quote from: Neenyah on March 08, 2024, 21:59:13Quote from: NikoB on March 08, 2024, 21:43:22everything will become dramatically worse - software performance will drop by more than 100(!) times, with any access to the swap file on the SSD,Bold of you to assume that you or any human on this planet can keep the pace - both mental and in operating the device - with the SoC and the RAM to actually notice any difference. Just try to calculate 86582×83.58 faster than the slowest calculator on the planet (good luck).
Quote from: CHK on March 08, 2024, 03:22:32Die Reparaturkosten, Garantie und System Aufpreise sind bei Apple wirklich abartig aber wenn man die Verarbeitungsqualität der Geräte insbesondere der Tastatur und den Bildschirm einmal gewohnt ist, stinken die Mitbewerber ziemlich ab. Bin sicher kein Apple Fanboy und verwende Apple MacBooks und Windows Notebooks aber bezüglich Haltbarkeit und Zuverlässigkeit sind die Apple Produkte schon eine Klasse für sich.
Quote from: Karl Frehner on March 07, 2024, 18:42:31Es kann doch nicht wirklich bemängelt werden in dieser Geräteklasse, dass man keine Wartungsmöglichkeit hat.
QuoteWas soll man da bitte warten?