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by aurareturn 83 days ago
Swap on macOS is incredibly good. Not sure how Apple does it. Maybe hardware compression?
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p_ing 82 days ago
It's no different from NT in that respect. macOS is significantly worse at handling OOM events than NT (even NT4, for that matter).
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longislandguido 82 days ago
> Not sure how Apple does it.

They do it by prematurely wearing down the soldered SSD just in time for you to buy a new laptop.

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aurareturn 82 days ago
As far as I know, there is no M1 8GB SSD wear down complaints in 2026.
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spicySpy 82 days ago
There are - people are complaining about SSD health
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aurareturn 82 days ago
Source? Is it SSDs breaking down or people are just looking at SSD usage and then get scared?
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