Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
With the launch of the M3 MacBook Pro last year, many reviewers and customers criticized the company for still selling...
Please, we need to charge 3x retail for 1/2 the normal amount of usable RAM because of reasons. Also, our cutting edge products are as upgradable as a styrofoam cup.
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They like it because it's an easy product differentiation. If they removed that option they would need to bump up every level so the top end would need to get better.
It's disgusting how we allow companies to sell essentially e-waste just so they can enrich shareholders a bit more.
According to Buyze, the 8GB of RAM in entry-level Macs is enough for most of the tasks that most users do with these computers.
While this is true, it also applies to the rest of the hardware like the processor. Most users don't need an M3 chip and would be fine with something built 10 years ago. Not a great argument if you're trying to sell your latest and greatest tech (at least to anyone who takes these argument on anything more than a surface level).
Not disagreeing with the sentiment, but that's a poor argument. The m3 has far better power efficiency than anything built 10 years ago and the battery life that allows is one of the leading drivers in selling anyone new technology.
Apple is good at selling literal shit to customers and make them feel like they are premium.
What a joke we live in
Another thought I have is, they are doing this to then argue that their new future 32GB Mac is needed for a normal experience and everyone should buy the new one because of more RAM
Me reading this and the comments, wondering if I'll ever use all 4G ram on my Linux X201...
8GB is too much! Offer a 4GB option then we’ll talk.
For Christ’s sake it’s an option in a configuration for an eff’n laptop. Don’t buy that option if you don’t like it. And if you don’t like paying for Apple stuff go buy a PC. But please let this go, it’s been months!!
Not everyone has a level of tech literacy you might wish for. People assume that Apple has good-quality products (which they do, I’m told) and buy them without doing research. Since you cannot expect everyone to be an expert in every product they buy, it’s reasonable to expect – well, at least wish for – Apple to not sell products that will be dated in 3 years.
What are they doing that makes software in the Mac universe that much more memory efficient?
I went from 8GB to 32GB on my laptop. It was second only to going from HDD to SSD. The difference was nowhere near as apparent though. My usage experience went from being able to tell when the kernel was hitting swap space to not having to care at all anymore about the how the kernel is doing with memory management.
apple may make software that doesnt require more than 8GB of memory, but a lot of developers that arent apple dont take that into consideration.
"memory is infinite" is a modern day slogan when building simple cross-platform apps because there is so much to use on normal computers.
there is even a joke for electron apps in this regard: how much memory does an electron app need to run? more.
Hey, look who's no longer pushing the envelope... come on irrelevancy..