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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

What a load of nonsense. You've got no idea how a computer works. RAM isn't just used for passing data between cores. If anything that's more the role of cache although even that isn't strictly accurate.

Whether a system has a discrete GPU or not doesn't really factor into the discussion one way or another, although even if it did having more RAM would be even more important without a discrete GPU because a portion of the system RAM gets utilized as VRAM.