Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
anlumo@lemmy.world 5 months agoApple definitely has a shit category, it’s the entry level with 8GBs of RAM. Completely unusable unless you’re only running a single app at a time.
Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down
anlumo@lemmy.world 5 months agoApple definitely has a shit category, it’s the entry level with 8GBs of RAM. Completely unusable unless you’re only running a single app at a time.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s just not true at all, and you’re only mocking them for their dumb-ass ram comment. Get out of here.
anlumo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, I actually have an 8GB M1 Mac Mini (only could get the cheapest one for tax reasons), and I tried doing software development on it. Running Xcode, VSCode, Chrome, and my own app on it at the same time let everything grind to a halt because it was swapping like crazy.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I run the same software and it’s fine. And if you knew you needed more ram, you should have gotten it.
anlumo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, it’s not like I can upgrade it.
The problem is that I had to get the cheapest one to be able to add it to the tax writeoff in a single year, otherwise it’s split among three years (the tax code in my country is weird like that). If I could aftermarket-upgrade the RAM, I could just have bought the basic model and then upgraded, but that’s not what Apple wants me to do.
Also, how should I know that I needed more RAM? It’s not like they’re writing that on the box (quite the opposite actually, Apple says that 8GB is enough for everyone).