Post #3106883
2026-03-26 23:43 UTC
@zed@mstdn.party I forget whether it was part of the 2019 WWDC keynote or in some supplemental materials released that same week but there were interviews with audio professionals who were delighted to finally be able to have Logic sessions where they could actually edit a full recording with dozens of different instruments on their own tracks, and this was something they were finally able to do because of the RAM levels. MKBHD discussed this when he reviewed the 2019 Mac Pro as well.
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@zed@mstdn.party 2026-03-27 08:23
@harpaa01@mastodon.social I appreciate you trying, but some people desiring high amounts of ram doesn’t back up the claim that “sound designers in heavy production” need 1TB of ram. The 1TB of ram being the baseline for “need” is the real sticking point.
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@cocoviper@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 19:44
@harpaa01@mastodon.social @zed@mstdn.party What I’ve heard about this is it’s based on older pro app architectures that didn’t stream files in very well from the disk. But that’s not really a limit anymore (both because of better designed apps and ever faster SSDs). Agreed though it needs an actual test with empirical data. The only 1TB RAM single user use case I’m aware of is local SOTA AI.