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Pretty sure my phone has 8GB of RAM. Apple should probably rethink this.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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I don’t disagree that 8GB is generally less than I would accept for normal usage, but the way this article is written you can tell the author really doesn’t have any reasonable grasp of memory management.
The reality distortion field is collapsing.
8 GB non-upgradeable. Not unusable yet, but probably will be in a few years. Then they can sell you a new one.
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This option kind of make sense. For those using laptops for very light use, such as basic web browsing, Document editing, replying to emails and want to have a Mac could buy them.
If apple could sell 16GB variant at the price of 8GB, then that would be the best.
If that's all you're doing you could save a $1000+ and just get a cheap Chromebook. Or if you want to be sustainable and reduce e-waste you could spend around the same amount on a framework laptop that's upgradeable and then spend a tiny fraction of that every few years keeping it up to date, rather than going the Apple approach and chucking the whole thing in the trash every few years and buying a brand new one.
No matter how you slice it, an 8GB macbook is a crap deal.
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This stuff is almost ewaste.
This is just not enough memory to make a computer last, especially since you can't upgrade.
Websites and apps that a lot of people use just aren't really expecting to only have 8gb ram available. Any kind of multitasking could easily run out of ram
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At these prices I'd expect at least 32 GB of RAM. 8 GB is for entry level phones and SOHO 2 to 4 bay NAS boxes.
The ramifications of Apple standardizing on-die RAM are going to be felt all over.