Do most students usually buy their Macbook Pro with 8 Gb or 16 GB of ram?

[Bankaimadness]

I am trying to gauge if 8 gigabyte of rams will be enough for my needs currently and in the future. I am planning on using the laptop for school, (Some twitch stream viewing, web browsing, YouTube, and etc.)

Do most students buy their MBP with 8 gigabyte or 16 gigabyte of ram from your experience?

 

[Mr Screech]

Yes 8GB is enough for this purpose. Unless you like to have 100+ tabs open.
Also, you can probably do the same on a macbook air.

 

[ThePeD]

For those uses, 8 will be enough.

 

[Bankaimadness]

For those uses, 8 will be enough.

Can it last 4+ years?

 

[||\||]

Can it last 4+ years?

Yes. RAM foot print for the OS hasn’t changed substantially in a very long time.

 

[Sterkenburg]

Absolutely not: as everyone on these forums knows, since the release of the 64GB 16" MBP there is no way you can browse the Internet on macOS with anything less than 32GB. /s

Just kidding... honestly, 8 GB on a MBA would be enough for your use case.
Bumping up to 16 GB might make sense in case you plan to get into something more demanding outside of your school activities, but that's your call.

 

[Dovahkiing]

I have 8GB on my 13” and it runs like a champ for everyday tasks.

 

[Howard2k]

I have 8GB on my 13” and it runs like a champ for everyday tasks.

ditto.

 

[ThePeD]

Can it last 4+ years?

Yes it will, the things you list are "normal" tasks for a computer, if i were you, i'd get the macbook air. It will be enough for what you described and cheaper than an Pro.

 

[Infinite Vortex]

Do most students buy their MBP with 8 gigabyte or 16 gigabyte of ram from your experience?

Im my experience most students don't buy either… they have their parents buy it.

 

[ThePeD]

Im my experience most students don't buy either… they have their parents buy it.

Then mom and dad are spending less for the Air..

 

[PROFESS0R]

i can speak with authority on this topic. Most of my undergrad students have inexpensive windows machines, with typically 2/35 or so having Apple products, and 1/70 or so having a MacBook Pro. Many of my undergraduate students have 5 year old windows machines with some having 7 year old or older windows machines.

My graduate students tend to have newer computers, but the windows/Mac distribution is still roughly the same as undergraduate students.

I have never seen more than 8Gb on a student computer.

Joe