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arrty88 | 8 months ago

I concur. I just upgraded from m1 air with 8gb to m4 with 24gb. Excited to run bigger models.

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diggan|8 months ago

> m4 with 24gb

Wow, that is probably analogous to 48GB on other systems then, if we were to ask an Apple VP?

vntok|8 months ago

Not sure what Apple VPs have to do with the tech but yeah, pretty much any core engineer you ask at Apple will tell you this.

Here is a nice article with some info about what memory compression is and how it works: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/os-x-10-9/#page-17

It's been a hard technical problem but is pretty much solved by now since its first debut in 2012-2013.