From Intel to M2 (external HDD question)

[OrenLindsey]

THos details are all true but you need to run benchmarks to see them. In normal use, you would never know if your Mac has 8 or 16 GB of RAM or if the SSD were 256 or 512. You need special tools to tell you.

You can actually tell if you have 16gb ram. Your device will be bottlenecked if you get any less than that.

 

[Saturn007]

In normal use, you would never know if your Mac has 8 or 16 GB of RAM or if the SSD were 256 or 512.

^^^^ THIS ^^^^