A lot of people are buying these machines with 8GB or shelling out for the upgrade. Win/win for Apple unfortunately.
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9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I dont’t understand how anyone is skimping on memory… All the memory fabs (micron, samsung, etc)took huge hits this year because of low prices and low sales
Shouldn’t companies be filling their devices to the brim with RAM? Is this just greed? What happened to the saying “cheap as chips”?
offbyone@feddit.uk 10 months ago
jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I mean when 70% of the public doesn’t use a computer for anything more demanding than streaming Netflix, office work, and paying bills 8gb is plenty. Sure the base model MacBook Air is still $1000 but for that you get a better screen, an exponentially better operating system than windows, an all aluminum case, and a machine that will still be in good shape 10 years from now. Hell my home computer is a 2014 MacBook Pro and performance wise that thing will still go toe to toe with windows machines built this year lol.
Can you get a similarly performing windows machine for less? Sure. But it’ll be a cheap plastic piece of shit with a clunky os full of bloatware that you have to fiddlefuck around with to get it back to how you want it every time they push out a software update.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
My mom has a 2013 macbook pro which is still chugging along, except apple stopped updating the root certs, so some https sites are breaking
WallEx@feddit.de 10 months ago
Yes, it’s apple, of course it’s greed.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
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