Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

june@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My 2009 Mac mini had 8gb of RAM. And it wasn’t even very expensive to do so when I did it in ~2013. Couple hundred bucks max.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Couple hundred bucks for 8 gigs of ram?

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    • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I didn’t even pay a hundred bucks for the 32GB of RAM in my current desktop, and it’s DDR5.

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    • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      11 years ago.

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• COASTER1921@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Part of the difference is that the Apple silicon Macs aggressively use SSD swap to make up for limited memory. But that’s at expense of the SSD lifespan, which of course isn’t replaceable.

  I’d never recommend a Mac, but the prices they charge to get a little more RAM or SSD over base are crazy. The only configurations offering any “value” are the base models with 8gb RAM.

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