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Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)

submitted 7 months ago by filister@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I get the sense that a lot of people here don’t use MacOS.

I have a few ARM and Intel Macs in 8 and 16gig configs, and I do a lot of heavy multimedia work. My 8 gig M1 only really gets into trouble when my partner and I both have an account with files open in bloated creative software. One pro user, and it’s usually fine. 2 active accounts with shitty creative software running, and you get a few beach balls.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

There are a ton of benchmark videos on YouTube. I saw one recently for the new MacBook Air comparing the 8/16/24 GB models. They found that 8GB was significantly slower than 16GB for tasks like exporting video, but there was no difference between 16 and 24 gb.

[–] summerof69@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I get the sense that a lot of people here don’t use MacOS.

I wish that was true.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Interesting to know for sure! I guess I can't speak to what they're doing for optimizations first hand, but at the same time...my 128GB cost me like $300 on sale so, I dunno, a wash? Haha.

I've tried to become a Mac convert a few times, mostly peer pressure, but I just haven't been able to do it successfully yet.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, if I’m building a PC, I’ll throw in as much RAM as I can get.

That said, with 16gigs I’m usually not thinking about RAM at all. I’d probably only want to go higher than that if I was living in Adobe Lightroom 24/7.