Not cost effective by any means, but then again none buys apple for cost effective anything. Some people just the brand it seems 🤦
Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 5 months agoExcept it’s cost 3x more than average 8GB ram laptops
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 5 months ago
abrinael@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How long is the average laptop usable, though? I still have a 2012 MacBook Air with 4GB of ram that gets daily use with no visible issues. I don’t feel like it’s slow. I don’t feel like there’s much daily business it can’t do (mostly web/email/pdfs/virtual meetings or classes/excel/word). I’ve also had about 4 windows laptops since about 2011. My primary desktop is a windows gaming PC and I complain more about its quirks than I do about the Mac.
WordBox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If your use case doesn’t require a lot, it’s not really going to matter mac or windows… If you’re spending the same amount of money. I have a 2010 Dell m11x that’s just fine for productivity. It was $900ish then.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Rocking a Dell latitude 3460 Core i5-5200U (2016?) with SSD and upgraded 16gb ram with win 11 running fine. It’s a flimsy pos I think it was meant for the Indian market, but I paid sub $100 for it 4+ years ago. Sure, I’m not gaming on it, but it works just fine for laptop activities.
pycorax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My 2009 Macbook became slow as heck after installing Mountain Lion on it 4 years after I got it, taking half an hour to even boot up. Ironically, Windows on it was a lot more usable. I agree that yea, there are cheap Windows laptops that are pretty bad but all the laptops I’ve had after that which I paid similar or slightly less for, have been far more reliable and longer lasting than my Macbook ever had.
And as for complaints, doesn’t that really depend on what you’re used to? Every time I have to use a Mac, I find a quirk that I can complain about every other minute but that’s just because I’m used to the Windows workflow or Linux where I can modify it to work the way I want it to.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Pretty sure it’d still drastically outperform every single other 8gb ram laptop out there though, perhaps even 3x faster. Not saying it shouldn’t have a ton more ram though, 8gb on anything expensive is pretty rude.
Opafi@feddit.de 5 months ago
If the alternative is Windows which is increasingly filled with ads or Linux which shifts the burden of computer administration to a user who might not have a clue about what they’re supposed to do if their WiFi doesn’t “just work”, paying for a managed walled garden that doesn’t try to install candy crush without you asking for it isn’t such a bad option.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The alternative is praying and absolutely exorbitant price a device that cannot be fixed by the user.