You ask me to share which files, yet don’t share specifically about yours
you didn't ask lol, but since you are now, sure, my workload at current is media production, lots of AV1 files, follow by unity engine, i normally don't need swaps but upon launching unity my mac start swapping around 16-20gb to ssd. on top of that i have about 40 chrome tabs open for work.
PDF’s couldn’t open while I had a few PowerPoints and simple Excel files open. Opened twice as much on the Mac, zero issue. I don’t remember file sizes, but none of the files above a few hundred MB.
thats definitely not the norm, i implore you to troubleshoot and see whats wrong, couple power points and excel files should not choke down even a bone stock pc.
Usually this is where people tell me my company’s managed Windows install is faulty… but that doesn’t really help me, and doesn’t answer the question.
these people sound about right, have you tried reinstalling with a fresh copy?
I’m well aware that there are tough workloads that my MBA is slow for. I’m pointing towards lots of people claiming that they work with files that “require” more RAM than on Intel. You still didn’t answer that
i can actually give you a personal example for this type of comparison. before upgrading to the m1, i had a 2015 mbp 13inch with 16gb of ram, and under the same workflow i was getting 12gb ram usage, under the m1 after porting everything over, i was immediately under yellow pressure from system monitor with 15gb ram usage. i'm not a system arictect by any means, but its suffice for me to conclude m1 absolutely uses more ram.
the files used less RAM on Windows, but how was it to work with?
works great, again it depends on how fast your ram is, i have ddr4 3600mhz 64gb on my gaming pc, not the fastest ram by any means, in fact the absolute top spec ram on pc side can reach 8000mhz, 2000mhz faster than what apple use for m2 max. i can say there are some tasks performing faster on mac and vice versa, but its honestly feel like splitting hair at that point.
A 64 GB computer doesn’t run any slower with 50 GB used than with 30 GB used, so for all we know it can show the opposite of what one may think, that it actually uses the RAM more efficiently (but I acknowledge I am a layman and this is just a theory)
right, i never claim any difference in speed, just showing mac and window have different ways of utilizing ram, with mac it will literally use as much ram as you can give it. would that mean a more fluid user experience? maybe. but again as i previously stated, it feels like splitting hair.
