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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 Dragxito@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 73 points 7 months ago (14 children)

They'll continue selling these, purely because of two reasons:

On an Air, 8gb is the bare minimum that is realistically viable, for people who don't do anything than browse the web, who they can later upsell, when they get a new machine.
They can immediately upsell you for every extra memory tier you would need. This makes them a colossal amount of money.

Practically all of us know that the difference between these memory modules is pocket change, when mass produced like this, but for those extra couple cents, they get an extra 100$ from you

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

When they charge many $100s for an extra 8gb the value of the bare minimum 8gb doesn't look so terrible (if only comparing to Apple). Especially considering the performance of swap on a fast SSD.

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