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Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)

submitted 6 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You did invite it by putting a timeline :D

I can almost buy the logic that a macbook air with 8gb is sufficient, but anything with Pro in the name really deserves more.

I have a m1 air with 16gb, and its fantastic for development, but start a few android emulators and docker containers and I can easily run out of RAM. If i can do it with 16gb, it must be trivial to hit with only 8gb.

In my area, I see heaps of 8gb macbooks being resold with only 1-2 battery cycles, my assumption is that people are buying the bottom spec only to discover that it is not adequate (I could be wrong though)

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

its fantastic for development, but start a few android emulators and docker containers and I can easily run out of RAM

As I said, that’s not the regular use case for most people.