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> A new report shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM. By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macOS uses roughly five times less memory under similar conditions.

Can we also be talking about how the Mac version uses 200MB apparently!? Why is a weather app using any more than like 10-20MB or so of RAM!? Load a couple icons into memory, maybe some background image or pattern, and a tiny bit of text. Why does it need to be so big!? (I'll cut it some slack while it's syncing/downloading, but for a weather app that should be like 30s once an hour max)



For one thing, Apple Weather displays hi-DPI animations for weather conditions.


Yeah. Should be possible to do those proceduraly to save ram and some clever animation design to not use too much CPU.

Anyways it is a bad trade off for the users to make and most don't even know they areaking it.




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