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How do you feel about Apple offering MacBook Airs with only 8 GB as Max Ram?
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The op is being sarcastic, right? It took a while for it to sink in, but he seems to be poking fun at all those people who constantly whine about their laptop specs being too anaemic and un-upgradable and how they need the horsepower to run all those high end apps.
In 2000ish, my best friend in high school got a new alien ware computer which he maxed out with 512MB of RAM, which at the time was ridiculous and amounts that high were only used in servers. He bought a special mobo with 8 slots and loaded each slot up with pricey 64MB dimms. He was so proud of it, and assured all of us that he would not need to upgrade for at least 5 years. Two years later I got a laptop on ebay with 1GB of RAM in it.
tl;dr - My story had no point really
tl;dr - My story had no point really
Hah! A long time ago I bought 128MB sticks of RAM and loaded up all 3 slots of my HP desktop. 384MB! At this time most computers were shipping with 64MB of RAM.
I loaded MSVC, Quake III Arena, Internet Explorer with about 10 websites, Netscape with about 10 websites, some huge PDF's....used up like 250MB. Had Windows Task Manager running and watched the counters and graphs climb up.
Never came close to using that much RAM again. I think RAM prices had crashed at the time so it was only like $40 or $50 a chip. It took like 45 seconds to do the memory check in POST!
I remembered the time in 2008, when I bought my very first MBP. It had 2 GB of RAM. And it worked fine. But now, I can't Imagine myself using a computer with 2 GB. That's just pain and torture!
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What's your second most important criteria?
Being future proofed. I don't think 8 GB is going to cut it.
And of course, the third is the Performance.
My 1st PC.. only had 16mb of Mem?// it ran like dream......2 Gb HDD....
oh yea, I was THE man...!!lol
Here I am A Decade later, MBAir.... 4GB Ram 128 GB SSD....runnin PS/MS Office etc etc..... YES ?!!!!!!!!!!! 4GB of Mem.. is more than enough...!!!!
If I had to add, anything? ........ It would be a world without MS!!!
OSX........ Forever...
oh yea, I was THE man...!!lol
Here I am A Decade later, MBAir.... 4GB Ram 128 GB SSD....runnin PS/MS Office etc etc..... YES ?!!!!!!!!!!! 4GB of Mem.. is more than enough...!!!!
If I had to add, anything? ........ It would be a world without MS!!!
OSX........ Forever...
I am currently testing the 11 Inch MacBook Air with 2GB of RAM. I was expecting the worst. And it is blazing fast. Completely unexpected.
I can't wait for the MacBook Air I'll be getting soon. I'm sure it's 4X faster.
I can't wait for the MacBook Air I'll be getting soon. I'm sure it's 4X faster.
For the type of use the MBA is designed for (average consumers and light-weight professionals), 8gb RAM is more than enough. Remember this is meant to be a mobile-centered laptop with adequate performance.
If your computer usage requires 16+ gb RAM, then you shouldn't consider buying a MBA to begin with: you need a MBP 15" or an iMac (meaning a very beefy machine).
If your computer usage requires 16+ gb RAM, then you shouldn't consider buying a MBA to begin with: you need a MBP 15" or an iMac (meaning a very beefy machine).
You're using the MBA with a 27" external Display... Does it work without any problems?
Wanna use it with an external 24" Screen, VM Ware Fusion (Win7 with Office Apps) and OS X (Browsing, Illustrator, Sketchup, Photoshop).
What do you think? Too much for the MBA 13" (8GB, i7)
Wanna use it with an external 24" Screen, VM Ware Fusion (Win7 with Office Apps) and OS X (Browsing, Illustrator, Sketchup, Photoshop).
What do you think? Too much for the MBA 13" (8GB, i7)