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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I used Windows, Mac and Linux in the past year.

It's not Mac that's fast, it's Windows that sucks hard.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Same.

Mac - Fast, user friendly, and UNIX based.
Windows - Fast (I have a beast), bloated, stupid command prompt (“Add-Migration”, capital letters really.), wants to spy on me.
Linux - Fast, a lot of work to get everything working as you would on Windows or Mac and I’m past those days, I just want to turn the thing on and play Factorio or Minecraft, not figure out if my 4080 will run on it etc.

it’s almost like people make choices to suit their needs and there isn’t a single solution for everybody.

I wonder what the industry standard is for developers? Genuinely. I’ve heard it’s Max, but my company is all in on Microsoft, not really heard of companies developing on Linux. Which isn’t to say Linux doesn’t have its place, but I’m aware this place is insanely biased towards Linux.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My current Linux machine needed exactly zero config post install, and even stuff like the fingerprint reader is working, I'm using it instead of passwords in a terminal.

I can also play games pretty well, it's usually smoother and less buggy than on Windows.

I feel Linux is not a compromise for me anymore, Windows is fast becoming one though.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What distro would you recommend, I’m prepared to try over the weekend.

How does it work with GPU drivers for a GeForce RTX 4080?

Anything else I need to be aware of

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm running Fedora KDE on a Framework laptop and a custom built machine, but they are all AMD so IDK about Nvidia cards.

As I've heard Nvidia nowadays releases Linux drivers.

TBH I haven't had any problems installing and using Linux for years now, I think just go for it and see what happens.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I will do.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

So I actually did it and wiped my Windows PC, nothing on there I needed to keep.

Set up Fedora and added the Nvidia Drivers.

Shut down for a few days and in my next boot I downloaded CoolerControl. Then my networking died and I’m at a loss as to what happened.

And people said it was just the same as using windows, yet me a massive nerd, software developer was stuck without ever having attempted to play games.

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