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> 4GB of RAM in a MacBook Air is not enough for your average knowledge-worker living in their web browser. You can't even spec a MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM an
by PragmaticPulp 6y ago
> 4GB of RAM in a MacBook Air is not enough for your average knowledge-worker living in their web browser.
You can't even spec a MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM any more.
Base configuration MBA has 8GB of RAM. You can even finance it for $83/month for 12 months, which isn't much more than a $50/month Mighty service. But you get to keep the laptop at the end of the 12 months if you finance it.
> 8GB is probably fine for most, but if you're a designer using Figma? Maybe not
Doing anything interactive, I'd be more concerned about latency. If I had an extra 100-200ms round-trip latency on anything I do in the browser, design work would become a lot more frustrating.