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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 5 months ago by sverit@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] Jtee@lemmy.world 127 points 5 months ago (39 children)

And now all the fan boys and girls will go out and buy another MacBook. That's planned obsolescence for ya

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

And the apple haters will keep making this exact same comment on every post using their 3rd laptop in ten years while I’m still using my 2014 MacBook daily with no issues.

Be more original.

[–] Jtee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice attempt to justify planned obsolescence. To think apple hasn't done this time and time again, you'd have to be a fool

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

👍

-posted from my ten year old MacBook which shows no need for replacement

[–] Jtee@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

And is what, 3 or 4 operating systems behind due to it being obsolete

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At which point did Apple decide your MacBook was too old to be usable and stop giving updates or allow new software to run on it?

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Still gets security updates. All the software I need to run on it runs on it.

My email, desktop, and calendar all still sync with my newer desktop. I can still play StarCraft. I can join zoom meetings while running Roll 20. I can even run Premiere and do video editing… to a point.

I guess if you need the latest and greatest then you might have a point, but I don’t.

This whole thread is bitching about software bloat and Apple does that to stop the software bloat on older machines, but noooo that’s planned obsolescence. 🙄

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is pretty much it. People really just want to find reasons to hate Apple over the past 2 - 3 years. You're right, though, your Mac can run easily for 10+ years. You're good basically until the web browsers no longer support your OS version, which is more in the 12-15 year range.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago

In fairness, most computers built after around 2014-2016+ last way longer, performance started to level off not long after that. After all, devs write software for what people have, if everyone had 128 gigs of RAM we'd load everything we could think of into memory and you'd need it to keep up

Macs did have some incredible build quality though, the newer ones aren't holding up even close to as well. I'm still using a couple 2012 Macs to play videos, it's slow as hell when you interact, but once the video is playing it still looks and sounds good

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I still have a fully functioning Windows 95 machine.

My daily driver desktop is also from around 2014.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

That’s pretty sick actually

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