For some - like Hibernate, Drive Optimization, and Event Logging - guessing their purpose is easy, but for others, that’s not that easy. There are a total of then features this app can turn on and off.

'Oh,' the critics will say, 'RAM that isn't used is wasted.' To which I say 'so fucking what? It's my RAM and I'll damn well waste it if I want.Provides quick access to a collection of advanced functions Any and everything I do in my routine workflow fits in the scope of the hardware. I don't find myself always running 'top' or 'free -h' to try and figure out 'OK, do I need to kill some stuff now?' and if so, 'what should I kill?' Nope. Of course that's not my normal mode of operation (well, except for the 200 tabs part), but the point is, I'm finally not limited by memory. Opening another couple of dozen browser tabs? No sweat. Want to launch one more Eclipse instance? Not a problem. Have 8 Firefox windows with 200 tabs open, 3 or 4 Eclipse instances, and a few server apps running, and want to launch a bunch of VM's with Vagrant? Done.

For probably the first time in my life, I feel like I can do basically whatever I want and not have to worry about RAM. I bought a new System 76 machine about this time last year, and splurged (by my standards) on 64GB of RAM. It’s hard to compare the values of macOS and Linux because they are very different, but it’s still easy to say that an M1 has excellent uses on macOS and everyone interested in non-Apple machines is (to some degree) waiting to see what Qualcomm or Nvidia can come up with in the ARM chipset space for non-macOS laptops… I think ChromeOS laptops prove that iPad-like performance is possible, but so far only the Apple M1 has shown that traditional 圆4-like performance is possible on laptop/desktop from ARM chips. By comparison, it’s hard to call the M1 the fastest computer I’ve used - desktops are plenty fast - but it’s certainly the most consistently performing laptop chip I’ve ever used, and is entirely quiet and cool to the touch at all times.

Sure, but the M1 generally has a high-quality Apple screen (this laptop from HP advertises only “FHD” so - presumably 16:9 1080p and not Retina-quality 16:10…) and the Ryzen, though much less constrained than Intel still likely has a “boost clock speed” and power throttles itself when disconnected from power or due to heat.

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