Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

[MacRumors]

Apple this week announced new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models, and they are all available with a minimum of 16GB of RAM. Apple also announced that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM too, at no additional cost, and this means that the entire Mac lineup now starts with at least 16GB of RAM.

Until now, the iMac, Mac mini, 14-inch MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air all started with 8GB of RAM, leading to criticism from some Apple customers in recent years.

Last year, an Apple marketing employee attempted to argue that 8GB of RAM in a Mac was probably analogous to 16GB of RAM in Windows PCs, given how efficient the unified memory is in M-series chips. Whether you believed that or not, you can rest assured that any new Mac sold by Apple today actually comes with a minimum of 16GB of RAM.

The latest Mac Studio and Mac Pro already started with 32GB and 64GB of RAM, respectively.

Article Link: Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

 

[surfzen21]

The King is dead!!!

Long live the King!!!

 

[TSE]

I will miss the 8GB era.

-AAPL shareholders

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Thank, Apple Intelligence. We couldn’t have done it without you.

(Literally)

 

[kirky29]

Thank goodness! Now for 32gb 🤣

 

[Unregistered 4U]

And well over 80% of all Mac users will never utilize it. Well, maybe once. A few may run a benchmark.

 

[Craptastic]

Yall will find something new to complain about lol

 

[M1956]

I wonder how long will the 16gb era last

 

[ant the ninja]

Great, now everyone shut up.

 

[jayryco]

Nah this must be a dream... someone is doing inception on me for sure 😂

 

[redbeard331]

Now let’s get the iPhone pro series on board.

 

[JPack]

The 8GB defenders will still live on, somewhere under the bridge.

"Yellow memory pressure is just normal." 😂

"MacOS uses all the memory available, so seeing red on the graph is ok." 🤣

 

[Heelpir8]

Yall will find something new to complain about lol

256GB SSD in some base models is a pretty easy target.

 

[1BadManVan]

Well im glad I got a 16gb m2 air when it came out lol, won't be bogged down with the Ai features atleast.

 

[cateye]

I fully relish and make zero apologies for being a vocal critic of Apple's pricing and marketing, despite generally enjoying the Apple products I use. But credit where credit is due: This is the right move and good job to Apple for doing it. A 16GB MacBook Air at the usual Amazon discounted price is such a killer device for almost anyone now.

Well, and the schadenfreude toward the people who were so resolute in defending 8GB is nice too.

256GB base SSD is a pretty easy target.

Agreed, but at least you can solve low storage at your own pace and budget with externals or the cloud. There is no solution to being strangled by low memory.

 

[mlayer]

The MacBook Air bump to 16 GB is the best surprise of this whole announcement week. I bought the M2 16/512 MBA for 1699 in June 2022, the BTO premium paid for future-proofing. Now the 16/256 is 999. In the meantime I got 2+ years of trouble-free use with zero memory issues. The old 8 GB SKUs should be heading for the clearance racks and Walmart anytime now.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

The 8GB defenders will still live on, somewhere under the bridge.

They’ll be the ones continuing to say that “8gb is the equivalent of 16gb!”

 

[rotvaldi]

They’ll be the ones continuing to say that “8gb is the equivalent of 16gb!”

After the meme against him they finally did it

 

[duffyanneal]

I'm sure Tim lies awake at night wondering what could have been if they could have held out another year with 8 GB.

 

[RumorConsumer]

Apple this week announced new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models, and they are all available with a minimum of 16GB of RAM. Apple also announced that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM too, at no additional cost, and this means that the entire Mac lineup now starts with at least 16GB of RAM.

Until now, the iMac, Mac mini, 14-inch MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air all started with 8GB of RAM, leading to criticism from some Apple customers in recent years.

Last year, an Apple marketing employee attempted to argue that 8GB of RAM in a Mac was probably analogous to 16GB of RAM in Windows PCs, given how efficient the unified memory is in M-series chips. Whether you believed that or not, you can rest assured that any new Mac sold by Apple today actually comes with a minimum of 16GB of RAM.

The latest Mac Studio and Mac Pro already started with 32GB and 64GB of RAM, respectively.

Article Link: Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

Thank god almighty

 

[dominiongamma]

I will miss the 8GB era.

-AAPL shareholders

And people on here saying 8 is enough lol

 

[MICHAELSD]

The main reason I’m excited is that we can stop hearing the complaints online every time modern Mac’s are discussed.

 

[one more]

Sweet, so next year we can have a minimum of 12GB of RAM in all new iPhones, right Apple?

 

[VisceralRealist]

Thank, Apple Intelligence. We couldn’t have done it without you.

(Literally)

For sure. Without Apple Intelligence, we’d still be getting 8GB in 2024.

 

[mansplains]

16GB on Mac = 32GB on PC