Eh, the laptop I'm using at the moment has a 15.6" display and 91Wh battery and is less than 100g heavier and about 1mm thicker than the 13" MBP. It's also 500g lighter than the 16" MBP. Lots of other properly tuned modern x86 laptops can perform similarly. For example the 14" 1.48kg 18mm 56Wh battery HP EliteBook 845 G7 manages >12h on NBC's wifi websurfing test: https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-EliteBook-845-G7-review-AMD...
> This isn’t how memory works :/
Fair point that free might not be the best way to measure things, I have more tabs open now but still not doing work (obviously), so let's compare:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 65328424 26679236 31393956 1165140 7255232 36284812
Swap: 67108860 3197072 63911788
With totaling per-process shared/private memory (I uses memstat.sh for this). And the total I get is: 18.37 GiB - lower, but actually not so far off.
This is only with a two browsers (a few hundred tabs) and some resident electron apps open, mind you. Before upgrading (w/ 16GB memory) I was often hitting swap, and now I'm not. But if you don't ever need >16GB of RAM, lucky for you I guess.
Eh, the laptop I'm using at the moment has a 15.6" display and 91Wh battery and is less than 100g heavier and about 1mm thicker than the 13" MBP. It's also 500g lighter than the 16" MBP. Lots of other properly tuned modern x86 laptops can perform similarly. For example the 14" 1.48kg 18mm 56Wh battery HP EliteBook 845 G7 manages >12h on NBC's wifi websurfing test: https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-EliteBook-845-G7-review-AMD...
> This isn’t how memory works :/
Fair point that free might not be the best way to measure things, I have more tabs open now but still not doing work (obviously), so let's compare:
With totaling per-process shared/private memory (I uses memstat.sh for this). And the total I get is: 18.37 GiB - lower, but actually not so far off.This is only with a two browsers (a few hundred tabs) and some resident electron apps open, mind you. Before upgrading (w/ 16GB memory) I was often hitting swap, and now I'm not. But if you don't ever need >16GB of RAM, lucky for you I guess.