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Do most people with MacBook Airs have workloads that require more than 16GB or ram or do they generally value a lower price point? Cost, performance, light wei
by viscanti 6y ago
Do most people with MacBook Airs have workloads that require more than 16GB or ram or do they generally value a lower price point?
Cost, performance, light weight - pick two right? Apple seems to have picked a combination of lower cost and light weight. Customers who need more ram probably move up to a MBP.
- wtetzner 6y agoThe 13" MBP has the same limitation.
- viscanti 6y agoFor the lowest end models right? It's the same tradeoff to bring down prices for people buying the lowest end machines. Presumably they understand that people who need the higher end spec'd machines will wait to buy a new laptop until more software has been migrated to run natively. If you need a 13" MBP that supports more than 16gb of ram, they sell it. It seems unlikely they'll stick with a 16gb limit once they start replacing the higher end devices.
- wtetzner 6y ago> For the lowest end models right? For the current M1 models. You can still get 32GB of RAM on the Intel models. So they're "low end" only in the sense that you can't get more than 16GB of RAM on them.
- dbbk 6y agoThe MacBook Pro is also limited to 16GB.
- Aperocky 6y agoI honestly can't think of a situation where you need more than 16GB of ram on an ultrabook. If your job is heavy video editing - I don't think getting a laptop is a good idea. I know I use a lot of RAM for compiling and tests, but we have cloud instances with up to 500GB of RAM for that. Also with the new ARM instructions, I suspect more heavy task like these will be forced to move elsewhere. Businesses might not want to switch for a few years to wait for dev tools/ARM servers to be available.