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Apple defends selling MacBook Air with only 8GB of RAM (bgr.com)
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[–] astraeus 6 points 7 months ago

The claim that it’s equivalent to 16GB is incorrect, probably closer to 10-12GB on a Windows computer. Linux however is different, and in some cases better than MacOS at memory usage.