Facing renewed criticism that it provides too little RAM in its iMac and MacBooks, Apple has doubled down on how Apple Silicon uses memory so much more efficiently.
Bob Borchers in front of an iMac
One of the design changes brought by the move from Intel to Apple Silicon in 2020 was to do with RAM. In Apple Silicon, memory is hard-wired into the processor using Unified Memory Architecture (UMA), and that removes traditional bottlenecks.
Go Here to Read this Fast! Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM
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Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM