I have a Linux Mint running on a intel atom CPU with 256mb ram and no graphics card and it kinda works.

  • Petter1@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I think macOS and windows have to swapped 🤔 macyoS seems to run less bloat in background

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Nah, the MacOS just has the wrong picture.

      It should be a specifically branded laptop, because as far as I know, it is impossible to run MacOS on anything other than an Apple branded computer.

    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I assume because apple optimize it for the hardware

  • Tyoda@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Not to dissect a meme too hard but I’m pretty sure the ram is supposed to go pins down into the potato.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        It is amazing how little you need to have a functional system. I have a OpenMediaVault / minidlna server using NAS ARM board that only has 256MB of RAM, and it isn’t using all of it, and doesn’t need to swap.

    • BonerMan@ani.socialOP
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      2 months ago

      Nope, you can run winass on worse Mashines than mac, however i still think its incredibly wasteful with resources, but its both of them.

      • MentallyExhausted@reddthat.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I just recently did this test on an old MacBook Pro 2011 and installed Windows 10, Pop, and macOS in succession. Windows ran like ass and Pop and macOS ran about the same (fine). Settled on Pop for better Steam compatibility. Trust me, Windows is uniquely bad.

        • BonerMan@ani.socialOP
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          2 months ago

          Windows runs like ass on the Mx Chips in general.

          Apple Software runs good on Apple hardware, yes its way better optimized and made for each other than the Microsoft surface products for example. Doesn’t mean Apple Software runs resource efficiently in general.

          But don’t get me wrong, i hate windows more than Apple software, but thats mostly because im forced to work with windows.

          • Anivia@feddit.org
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            2 months ago

            You’ve clearly never run hackintosh. MacOS runs better than Windows even on PCs not made by Apple. The difference is especially obvious on Laptops, where MacOS gets almost as much battery life as Linux, whilst Windows barely gets about 2/3rds as much

      • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        It’s funny people still think this, they just replaced nearly my entire M1 MacBook Pro that was completely fucked because of water damage. Literally everything but the display was replaced, I basically have a new computer at the cost of $300+whatever I paid for AppleCare+ when I bought it ($400, I think?), which is significantly cheaper than buying a new one would have been

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Nice anecdote.

          Let me tell you an anecdote where I had to pay 620€ to repair the screen of one of their cheaper ipads. About the same price as a new one. Wasn’t even 3 years old.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Corrections:

    MacOS:

    • Featureless Apple™-branded oblong with 195% profit margin (support for 160% profit margin dropped in Apple™ Mac™OS™ 12.8.3.1.6.4 West Coast Yuppie Resort)
    • Devices no more than two years old
    • No pride, self-respect, personality, etc, except that provided by ownership of Apple™ products.

    For Windows:

    • CPU generation newer than an arbitrary, shifting and easily-bypassed watershed.
    • 1, 2, 4, 16 or 128GB of RAM, depends who you ask.
    • Windows License 😉
    • Copilot+ AI requires Microsoft CoPilot+ AI compatible Microsoft CoPilot+ AI CoProcessor+ and Microsoft CoPilot+ CoProcessor+ AI Microsoft CertificAItion+
    • A lack of awareness or interest in operating systems.

    For Linux:

    • Turing-completeness.
    • Memory, networking, inputs, outputs, power (optional).
    • Another computer to occasionally Google who ‘initramfs’ is and why he won’t let you boot.