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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

The reality distortion field is collapsing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The ramifications of Apple standardizing on-die RAM are going to be felt all over.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Nobody needs more than 64k of memory."

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