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How much money are these companies going to make by reducing their weather app to 1MB, or 10MB? How much is it going to cost them to get there?

The world doesn't run on personal aesthetics, when nobody is willing to pay for them.

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The MacBook Neo has only 8GiB of RAM. This is widely decried as not enough. The RAMpocalypse means that 8 GiB is going to have to be enough or else it'll eat into Apple's margins. The Neos are wildly popular though because people have used it and 8 GiB is fine. So while the singular weather app being smaller itself isn't material, in aggregate, macOS being more efficient is something that lets Apple sell a lower spec product while still justifying a higher price and thus better margins for Apple.

Let's not ignore the new "windows copilot laptops" that come with 4GiB.

https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/defitsit-pamyati-zastavi...

Insanity. 4GB was often not enough even back in late Windows 7 era.

4GB is completely fine in Windows 7.

Not to mention that on 32-bit without PAE, that was all you could get. Nothing more.

I thought you were limited to 3GB without PAE, since you needed at least 1 GB dedicated to memory-mapped I/O? I was never a PC guy though so I could be mistaken.

Apple has been using the "macOS is more efficient" excuse since the early 2000s to justify skimping on RAM.

> The MacBook Neo has only 8GiB of RAM. This is widely decried as not enough.

Bwahahah!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I really didn't want to link that thread but I guess it would show it the best way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331863

These days we have an AI system to do exactly this kind of optimization, too expensive for humans, and too cheap compared to consuming expensive modern hardware

Can AI optimize? All signs point to it writing extensive amounts of unnecessary code

Hey, just a few more years of rising memory prices and it'll actually be a marketing term how much RAM something uses.

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