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skyline385@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Is 8GB RAM laptop even relevant to this discussion? You seem to be going off on the “Apple doesn’t provide enough RAM with their base models” which is a completely different discussion. Regarding soldering the SSD, many manufacturers do it and it’s certainly not good practice. I never said Apple is the greenest company in existence but they are also not the worst like the original company implied and they are certainly not forcing early retirement of their products. On the contrary they are doing the opposite by providing software support even 5-6 years after purchase.

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
8GB laptops are pretty much ewaste outside of Chromebooks. That’s why it’s relevant to the “green” discussion

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sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
no, not that many companies sold the SSD. The RAM? yeah, it’s widespread now. But you can still find laptops with upgradeable RAM. The SSD has been replaceable in most laptops.

And yes, the 8GB RAM is very relevant to the discussion, because for the same price every other manufacturer is offering at the very least 16GB, in most cases 32GB and in some 64GB.

8GB macbooks will be rendered obsolete way sooner than 16GB laptops. That’s ewaste for you.

they are also not the worst

I’d argue that they are very close to that title, given their marketshare.

Sure, you have years of software support. Great. Did the hardware survive that long? Do you need any repair? Because they won’t allow third party spare parts so it would be a shame if you needed one.

Also, the software support desktop, Linux has not a limited amount of years of support, it could revive perfectly good hardware that Apple doesn’t support anymore and they deliberately make it difficult to install.

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- HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Linux mint that handles 4GB pretty well. But the majority will toss old stuff away when Windows gets painful to use.
  
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  - sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Linux Mint does yeah. Browsers? Not for long. Give it a few years and browsers might require 16GB of RAM to run.
    
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    HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Windows alone took almost all, Mint takes half or so. So I do get a better experience just surfing in Firefox. I can even run Onshape
    
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