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Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it (www.macworld.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it::Apple still sells expensive "Pro" computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (10 children)

If Windows didn’t wanna make me punch my monitor at least once a month, that’d be a good deal…

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Problem: the software I primarily use under Windows are

    • Photoshop • A 20 year old negative scanner software • Games

    The latter is less of a problem nowadays, however, I‘d like to use HDR in supported titles and Linux HDR support wasn’t really a thing yet, last time I checked…

    Same with macOS, I primarily use proprietary software that doesn’t have a Linux version, nor decent Linux alternatives

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Doesn’t solve the negative scanner and HDR issues though… The scanner has a solution, in theory, however I’m not ready to spend 100€ on scanner software for Linux, when the 20 y/o free software works just fine…

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    To each their own, after having had the 'pleasure' of maintaining a fleet of Macs I'm personally quite happy with Windows these days. I'm never touching anything running MacOS ever again, that bullshit OS almost made me want to practice my frisbee skills on more than one occasion. Stability issues galore, that stupid single menubar that changes depending on which window has focus, crap like 'sudo rm somefile' failing with a 'not enough disk space remaining to remove file' error message when the disk is full, and many many other issues that were such a pita to solve. MacOS feels like having to work with one hand tied behind your back and a hammer in the other. Never again.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I mean, some of those are preference things. I like the menu bar on top because it’s easy to home in on it. It’s always up there. For every program. No searching.

    I cannot complain about stability, either. I had a hackintosh running macOS on PC hardware, that was more stable than Windows on the same machine…

    And I also rarely do things in the terminal besides ssh-ing into my Linux server…

    I’d agree though, that Windows is easier to maintain. It’s just a pain in the ass to daily drive, because, at least in my experience, something will always refuse to work for no apparent reason, even though it’s supposed to.

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