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Why are tech news websites suddenly bashing 8GB RAM in Apple devices?
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I guess we got used to massive ram increase/requirements in the past few years due to x86/64 architecture and such, that 8GB now seems completely obsolete. ARM works differently and more efficiently which would explain the lower specs for same or better results.
That's how I see it at least.
I am sorry, but you are confidently incorrect.
It is absolutely true that x86_64 and ARM are two different CPU architectures, this does not mean that RAM usage differs hugely between them, that has more to do with the OS.
If you want to load a 20MB raw image into ram to edit it, it will take 20MB of ram regardless of CPU arcitecture.
The reason we are used to using so much ram is that as hardware capabillities have increased, so have software requirenments.
The processor architecture does not influence RAM usage. (At least not if both architectures are 64-bit)