What an embarrassment that this is actually a big deal. 🤦♂️
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Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era
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Yeah let's not pretend Apple is doing this to benefit the customer over profit, per se, otherwise they would've done it at least 5 years ago. Literally because of an external variable that recently showed up in the market (AI).
How do you know that?
So true. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve read the “it’s future proofing!” Excuse but the base model is more than enough for 99% of people and the device is long gone before they use any software that actually touches on the need of higher amounts of RAM. Especially with more and more services being done through the cloud, a strong Internet connection is more important than 4629 GB RAM.
So, in effect, Mac's now start with 32 GB of Windows-equivalent RAM!
It’s Mac-bro science!
Depends if Apple have fixed WindowServer memory leak or not.
Great.
Now we need 512GB as the base and we're ok for a couple of years.
Now we need 512GB as the base and we're ok for a couple of years.
I wouldn't invest in a 16GB Windows machine for anything but the simplest of uses (if you want a little future proofing).
16gb is not enough for anyone, apple should be embarrassed, even casual users who only use email need at least 12888gb, the best critics never use the shift key and the only punctuation mark is comma
it’s a great day but now we need 512gb storage or more reasonable bto prices. ideally both because i want 24gb & 1tb
Next 2 years time u will need to have at least 16gb ram to get the latest software
Nope. Just replace “8 gig” with a random different spec.
And that guys is how we get a truck load of our customers to ditch even Apple Silicon Macs for Newer Apple Silicon Macs
And the board gave a round of applause
😂
And the board gave a round of applause
😂
Finally the end of "but apple silicon is more efficient so 8GB of ram is enough" whining from faculty.
It's like they think they're the only ones who are ever going to use that laptop.
It's like they think they're the only ones who are ever going to use that laptop.
It was for non AI workloads. Software has been pretty flat in requirements for some time. Only high end video, photo editing and data processing required more RAM.
Web surfing, productivity etc worked fine on it.
I would prefer reasonable upgrade prices. 512gb is more than a lot of people need, and 512gb isn't enough for a lot of other people. Let us make our own choices Apple. I preordered a base model M4 Mac Mini... upgrading it was just not worth it, and 512gb isn't enough for me... so external storage it is.