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by dheera 259 days ago
The real problem is Apple being so stingy with RAM.

I have 192GB of RAM on my (non-Apple) desktop and 96GB of RAM on my (non-Apple) laptop. I have never had memory issues with Electron apps, 200 Chrome tabs open, or pretty much anything, really.
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willtemperley 259 days ago
It's not a memory problem at all. It's the misuse of a private API that's at fault:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/macos_26_electron_slo...

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kimixa 259 days ago
But if the "private API" was the only way of fixing an issue with rendering corner smoothing, was it "misuse"?
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willtemperley 259 days ago
The developer who submitted the fix thinks so:

"I need to be clear about this, Electron's "_cornerMask" override was a dirty hack that was made in an effort to fix an ancient issue with corner smoothing."

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...

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raspasov 259 days ago
Apple does have a 128GB laptop with M4 Max.
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encom 259 days ago
It starts at 5000 USD. Five. Thousand. Dollars.
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raspasov 258 days ago
It is the fastest laptop CPU in the world right now, by a decent stretch.

128GB PC laptops are not very cheap either, if you want a decent one, like a ThinkPad.

Here’s a 7000 USD ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 workstation:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...

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encom 258 days ago
>fastest laptop CPU in the world

Maybe, but it's 1) ARM 2) In a Mac. Those are some colossal caveats.

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raspasov 258 days ago
What caveats specifically?

I understand the problems of measuring cross-platform performance but anecdotally even on things that it's not specifically optimized for, for example running a Java Virtual Machine with 10s of GBs of memory, it's really fast, efficient and competitive to most non-Mac/ARM setups.

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dheera 257 days ago
Not 128GB, but 96GB of SODIMM is <$300 on Amazon. Don't buy it from Lenovo.
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dheera 258 days ago
Yep. Add a usable SSD to that and it'll be 7K.

I have 8TB in my laptop (cost $500) and 28TB total in my desktop (cost ~$2K) and before you start on it, yes I do use that much space.

These are unheard-of numbers for a middle class Apple owner, but commonplace for a middle class non-Apple owner.

Looking at the Apple website their offerings start from 0.25 TB. What a joke. My phone has that much.

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