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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple (www.macrumors.com)
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8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,...

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[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sitting at 300 mb usage after boot running Linux and at 250 mb usage on a secondary machine running OpenBSD.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you using a desktop environment?

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

in Linux I use Sway, although I have XFCE installed as a backup.

I think that what makes a major difference is disabling all the trash services that distributions have enabled by default and most users never make use of. To be fair, I disable Bluetooth too, that people find useful. But I don't think that would make that much of a difference.