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		pornel 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's Craig Federighi on the long road to the iP... I don't get it why is performance such a massive issue that they still need to have an artificially low limit on the number of windows. M-series iPads are more powerful than most of Apple's Mac Pros were. They have 8GB of RAM, but until recently so did Apple's best-selling MacBook models.

andrekandre 3 months ago [–]

  > artificially low limit on the number of windows

afaik its because ios has swap disabled so even with 8gb its gonna be tight with some apps (or even just browsing some heavy pages)

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