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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 58 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It should be criminal that so many laptops they sold the past few years have 8gb of ram.

All of those people will be looking to upgrade within a year, which is the plan...

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Apple just can't resist making ridiculous margins from their customers, even when their devices do allow for upgrades to the default configuration.

For instance, with a Mac Pro, you have to pay an extra $800 to go from 64gb to 128gb of memory. For $800, you could get about 384gb of ram in 64gb sticks from a different vendor.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Dude, “640k is enough for anyone.”

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 months ago

I know it’s an unpopular opinion in these parts, but honestly, 8gb is often fine for the people who are buying entry level machines.

I use a 2014 Mac mini for work, which has 8gb of soldered RAM. For sure I’d increase it to 16gb if I could, but I honestly can’t say I have any issues with it. It’s running Sonoma via OCLP like a champ.

But yeah, what Apple charge for RAM is downright criminal.