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Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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About time. This also applies to their older models such as M2 and M3 laptops.

In the U.S., the MacBook Air lineup continues to start at $999, so there is no price increase associated with the boost in RAM.

The M2 macbook air now starts at $1000 for 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. Limited storage aside, that's surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops.

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

We use windows PCs at work as software engineers now, but when I was training I used a MacBook Pro M1 with 16GB of RAM and that thing was incredibly performant.

I know it in vogue to shit in Apple, but they build the hardware and the software and they’re incredibly efficient at what they do and I don’t think I ever saw the beachball loading icon thing.

Now the prices they charge to upgrade the RAM is something I can get behind shitting on.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The chip and OS won't do shit when your ram is saturated by electron apps taking 800MB each. Maybe MacOS behaves better under very high memory pressure than windows does, but it doesn't mean it's okay to rip off consumers. That whole 8GB on mac = 16GB on windows has been bullshit all along, and is mostly based on people looking at the task manager and seeing high ram usage on windows (which is a good thing)

[–] Sh0ckw4ve@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha no MacOs is not better performing under very high memory pressure. Rip me working on a macbook air.

I have to make sure not to run too many things at once...

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Now that I think of it yeah, my work mac simply shows a popup telling me to kill an app. It just doesn't deal with high mem pressure lol

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