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The first true MacBook Neo rivals are here, packing double the RAM and storage of Apple's budget laptop (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

they seem to have better memory management than windows

Windows has RAM compression by default since quite some time.

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And RAM compression is free? Or does it have to compete with other background processes that Windows 11 has?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

And RAM compression is free?

Of course not but I'm not aware of a different impact on performance compared to macOS.