I dunno if you noticed or if that was the joke. But you said “8 megs” three times in your comment when I think you meant to say “8 gigs”. 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes. Just wanted to let you know in case it wasn’t a joke about how 8 wasn’t enough. That’s all, thank you!
Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I bought one of the early M1s and bought into a lot of the early reviewers that claimed 8 was enough on the ARM architecture. Honestly, for most folks, it’s probably fine. For me, it’s not.
I my wife and I use the M1 has a multi-account family machine. And we’re both experience design directors, so we both have RAM hog design apps open under our accounts. The poor little Mac just can’t handle all that abuse with 8 megs.
Our old ass Intel Mac with 16megs of RAM had no problems keeping a ton of crap open.
The battery life and low heat are absolutely amazing on the M1. That stuff was a monumental upgrade. But we absolutely can’t be lazy and just leave crap open unless it’s actually needed.
The fact that Apple is selling “Pro” machine with 8 megs is a joke. 8 would be fine for my folks who fart around on Facebook all day, but it’s not enough for a lot of heavy multimedia work.
rushaction@programming.dev 7 months ago
ricdeh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Actually, 1 gigabyte (10^9^ B) is 1000 megabytes (10^6^ B), while one gibibyte (2^30^ B) corresponds to 1024 mebibytes (2^20^ B). I know that in some circles, 1 GB is treated as 1 GiB, so I don’t blame you. This system of quantities is standardised internationally in order to conform with the SI (mega must mean a million times and not 2^20^ times), but many don’t conform to it, such as Microsoft as far as I know.
rushaction@programming.dev 7 months ago
Thank you for the correction and details.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
lol. Apparently my brain is broken.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I found for most CS-ish tasks 8GB is okay. I also bought an early M1 and haven’t had too many problems outside of running VMs, which I expected. I purchased one of the stocked configurations at an Apple store, so there were slim pickings with 16GB of memory that weren’t like double the price of the machine.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, my guess is 2x accounts is the cause of 90% of my performance issues. One person’s Adobe crap is fine, but two us too much for 8gigs.
seth@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is Adobe still the standard? When I realized browsers and 3rd party apps render PDFs much quicker than Reader, I started looking for other alternatives to Adobe. I was familiar with the flow of PaintShop Pro and GIMP, so now the very little I did in Photoshop I do in GIMP/Inkscape/a couple other freebie tools. When they acquired Macromedia and killed Flash, I was out of their ecosystem, so my poor knowledge of their products is almost 2 decades old. What are their can’t-live-without products nowadays?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Depends what you’re doing, but for branding and print media, Adobe still dominates most shops. If you’re doing UX, then you’re probably in Figma these days.
BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
8 megs of RAM? I didn’t know they brought back the Macintosh II.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
lol. Fixed. My brain is broken.