that 8GB RAM though ..
Yes regular web browsing and email! The 16 gig option if you use program all day to Mac money (think audio/video productions) you need this!
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Yes regular web browsing and email! The 16 gig option if you use program all day to Mac money (think audio/video productions) you need this!
web browsing and email can be done with a £350 Chromebook though?
Only 8GB. Pass.
$250 Lenovo Duet Chromebook offers about the same experience as my MBA M1 with Safari and with Chrome it's a little better but not 5x the cost better.
$250 Lenovo Duet Chromebook offers about the same experience as my MBA M1 with Safari and with Chrome it's a little better but not 5x the cost better.
Average user won’t spend over $1000 for a laptop, let’s be realistic. I’ve worked in many retail spaces and there are much cheaper solutions for average users
My local Best Buy had a Space Gray MacBook Pro M1 with 512GB that was open box, marked as "satisfactory" with "residue" on the tag, marked down to $1,259. When we opened the box, it appeared 100% brand new, but there was a fingerprint smudge on the screen... It was in the original box, complete with original charger and unwrapped USB-C cord. The only thing missing was the Apple stickers. I snagged it up. It replaced my 2019 base 13" MacBook Pro TouchBar with 128GB. When I got it home, it was already updated to the latest 11.2.3, telling me the original buyer just bought it last week. I'm quite happy with the $240 savings for a week old machine. I went in with all intentions of walking out with a base 256GB for $1,199 ($100 off sale price).
Based on ? The rumor mill? You've actually experienced this and if so what app's were running
Retail spaces, like what stores? Are you comparing like Apple to Lowes ?
I think you kind of missed the point.
I'm not standing up for Jeff Bezos, or any other gazillionaire. To even imply I am is disingenuous.
Whenever I was stuck working a crappy underpaid job, my focus was on maximizing my resources to better my lot in life. Not on buying high end laptop computers.
While university is no longer free in the UK, there's no upfront cost to enter and pursue an education that will rate you somewhat better than working the floor at Amazon for pittance. Repayment rates are based on salary earned after graduation.
I was a terrible student in HS. Best I could do or afford was community college. Took 2 years off between that and a full university to care for my dying father and help my parents pay their mortgage so they wouldn't lose their house. Then went back to finish. Decided to take on a civil service career that really doesn't pay well, but has a decent retirement and stability. I don't make a lot of money. Like most people, it's a check to check existence. I think people like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook, and Musk should be paying a LOT more taxes than they do. I also support a higher minimum wage, and strongly pro union (I'm a 3rd generation union worker. My father and grandfather were dock workers in the US, HS dropouts, and functionally illiterate. The union made a living wage possible).
But working at Amazon for minimum wages isn't a career. It's not something to be aspired to. It's a basic job. No one is going to make 25 quid an hour working in a warehouse.
I'm not buying a yacht and a private jet anytime soon. Because at my salary, it's not in the cards. I understand that, because I chose a life of public service. A low salary comes with the territory.
If you chose "warehouse worker" as your career, well that new MB M-1 is your yacht.
"Because at my salary, it's not in the cards. I understand that, because I chose a life of public service. A low salary comes with the territory."
I think you deserve better.
Don't spread misinformation. Currently, it can use up all 16GB DRAM and create a swap file that may cause premature SSD wear with just a single browser tab. Probably a Big Sur OS bug that may be fixable down the road but that's the current state.
Would advise anyone looking to buy to pay attention to the issues in the M1 forums.
https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/apple-silicon-arm-macs.227/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ssd-swap-high-usage-of-terabytes-written.2284893/
No. I quite simply mean that a large amount of average users aren’t buying $1000 laptops based on what people walk into stores and buy.
There’s ACER, Dell, HP, etc who all provide “web and email” laptops for a better priced deal in comparison to a MacBook.
Please read up on ARM architecture swap disk utilization in relation to stack overflow issues. It’s an interesting area (especially with new chips.) They generally work fine in normally lightweight kernel but under significant load of modern flagship OS’s, 8 GB RAM is generally known to be minimal at best and better assumed deficient. Obviously it’s also fair to say, as you pointed out, a good amount depends on process and thread utilization. On the whole though, I really think what I said has to be disproven by Apple in the M1 architecture as newcomers (and beyond basic benchmark tests.) Even though a fundamentally UNIX kernel streamlined for the M1 should be fine, the services, and apps are key. The inclusion of 8 GB RAM strikes me more as a price wooing rather than providing tangible benefits to customers. These comments also wholeheartedly included the Intel lineup, but the post referred to M1 product. I’ll just skip the whole SSD degradation issue.
I didn't post misinformation. I just posted something you didn't agree with. I will state again, that the average user who uses the Mac for just email, browsing the web, viewing video on YouTube, and using basic spreadsheets etc. doesn't need 16GB of RAM.