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MaxTech constantly makes inaccurate comparisons and does not accurately gather data for the workloads they run. Not saying they are wrong here, but they’ve been disproven MANY times in the past.
Exactly. Tech YouTubers know NOTHING about tech, they just know clicks. They will avoid straying from a trend or groupthink as it means less views for them.
I wholeheartedly agree about MaxTech on average, but in this particular instance… the video is actually pretty good.
Or rather, if one watches it correctly, the material presented that remains after the filter is quite good. Namely, one should discard all claims based on pure numerology - numbers from the config, current year, “RAM used” shown by activity monitor (a big chunk of that figure is very optional file cache that only marginally improves perf, but uses up the more RAM the more you give it, for starters, + a lot more), etc.
The actual experiments with applications done on the machine, performance measurements (seconds, etc), demonstrations of responsiveness (switching from tab to tab on camera) are actually quite well done, in fact, the other youtube videos on the subject rarely include quantifiable performance / timing measurements and limit themselves to demos (or pure handwaving and numerology).
Of course, conclusions, “recommendations”, etc. in their exact wording also need to be taken with a half a metric ton of salt, but there is still a lot of surprisingly good signal in that video, as noted.
Don’t link MaxTech. They were one of the idiots originally making the 8GB == 16GB claim. They have no idea what they’re doing.
MaxTech constantly makes inaccurate comparisons and does not accurately gather data for the workloads they run. Not saying they are wrong here, but they’ve been disproven MANY times in the past.
Exactly. Tech YouTubers know NOTHING about tech, they just know clicks. They will avoid straying from a trend or groupthink as it means less views for them.
You should look at iJustine 🌈 to others as Engadget
Glad I’m not alone remembering the bullshit they spewed when the m1 came out.
8gb is great for high memory pressure and being dependent on slow swap memory
I wholeheartedly agree about MaxTech on average, but in this particular instance… the video is actually pretty good.
Or rather, if one watches it correctly, the material presented that remains after the filter is quite good. Namely, one should discard all claims based on pure numerology - numbers from the config, current year, “RAM used” shown by activity monitor (a big chunk of that figure is very optional file cache that only marginally improves perf, but uses up the more RAM the more you give it, for starters, + a lot more), etc.
The actual experiments with applications done on the machine, performance measurements (seconds, etc), demonstrations of responsiveness (switching from tab to tab on camera) are actually quite well done, in fact, the other youtube videos on the subject rarely include quantifiable performance / timing measurements and limit themselves to demos (or pure handwaving and numerology).
Of course, conclusions, “recommendations”, etc. in their exact wording also need to be taken with a half a metric ton of salt, but there is still a lot of surprisingly good signal in that video, as noted.