Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough
small44@lemmy.world 4 months ago
From who? My mother who only use facebook, youtube and googling don’t need 8gb
I don’t know what Xcode is so yeah, I haven’t been found wanting with my 8GB M2. Videos, downloading, web browsing, writing, chat applications, some photo editing, games (what I can actually play on a Mac, anyway), all good here.
16GB+ is obviously going to be necessary though, and not exactly that expensive to put into their base models so it should be put in soon.
I had a laptop with 8GB. Doing one of those things was fine, but when you open up another program it takes forever to switch to the browser
And then you have to activate linux app support for a thing she needs and can not do with chromebook and suddenly it is more complicated than macOS?
Glowstick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sounds like all she needs is a dirt cheap chromebook then
small44@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s what she has
Glowstick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Then her situation isn’t applicable to this topic
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This comment chain made me chuckle. It’s such an “internet comment section” …trope? I don’t know the right word.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That all depends on how much work they want to put into troubleshooting it for her.
Glowstick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mac is easier than Windows, sure, but not easier than a chromebook. Nothing is simpler than a Chromebook. You can do much more with a Mac, but a chromebook is much easier.