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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Gotta keep those weirdly under-specced non-pro macbooks selling somehow

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

how are MacBook airs under specced?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

8GB of memory on your base model was ridiculous half a decade ago, it's a crime in 2024.

I'd also say a quarter of a terabyte is nowhere near enough storage for a computer a quarter of the cost.

I'm not a Mac hater, the (non-baseline with recent revisions) MBP line has been pretty fantastic for as long as I've been using them (over a decade now), but the baseline non-pro models are a waste of money.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

8GB RAM is enough if you don’t know what RAM is. But not for that price.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 6 months ago

My Mini at work has 8gb that I can’t upgrade, and honestly, the only time it’s ever a real issue is when I’m running a Win11 VM that eats up half the RAM.

However, with the cost of RAM now, speccing 8gb on any £1000+ computers is downright criminal.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Ram and disk for price point.