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More RAM for all please!
by _ea1k 5y ago
More RAM for all please!
- vmception 5y agoI waited and got the 64gb ram one Not enough to run a Solana node but I think it covers all of last decades use cases that i would encounter
- yumraj 5y agoSure, but it'll come at $400 to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB :(
- dheera 5y agoI love my $200 64GB with my Framework Laptop. Fuck Apple they should be sued for price gouging.
- dymk 5y agoThat's not what gouging is. How's that battery life treating you?
- smoldesu 5y agoDid I miss something, or is RAM price somehow related to battery life? Edit: your response has literally nothing to do with the parent comment or my comment, so I'm not even going to engage with you on this.
- dymk 5y agoEnjoy these recent user reviews of the Framework Laptop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29808181 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29808181 > As has been noted time and time again, battery life is atrocious. As in unusable for even the travel time required for a three hour flight: factoring in the poor sleep, an hour at the airport, and time on the aircraft the battery is dead. Crazy for 2021/2022 - my eight year old Macbook does better. Basically, the Framework Laptop seems to hardly even fit the description of "laptop" in 2022. Certainly not comparable to a Macbook Pro if one is going to complain about price.
- dheera 5y agoBattery life isn't a huge concern for me, there are outlets everywhere these days, even on planes, but user-swappable SSD and RAM are absolutely non-negotiable for me, as is the ability to run Linux natively, and actual function keys. Macs are unusable. That said if I'm not doing number crunching I can easily get through 4 hours or more and that's plenty good for my use case.
- white_dragon88 5y ago
- yumraj 5y agoKeeping aside rest of the debate, I'm genuinely curious if 6 hours vs 12 hours (just as an example, not real numbers) is really an issue for most people. I work exclusively on laptop, no external monitor and have for last 8-10 years. My laptop is almost always plugged in. I go at most 1-2 hours without it being plugged and most modern laptops have batteries that last that long. Am I in the minority who uses their laptop as such?
- dheera 5y agoI'm with you, my laptop battery is mostly for public transit / Uber rides and for keeping state as I switch physical locations, I'm almost always plugged otherwise.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> they should be sued for price gouging Price gouging laws relate to raising prices in an emergency, which is not something they've done, or for people in a monopoly position for the product, which is not Apple as there's a huge market of laptops. It's not illegal to price something higher than you'd like.
- radicaldreamer 5y agoA MacBook Air with 32GB RAM would be a dream
- Consultant32452 5y agoA MacBook Air that can push 2 external monitors is mine
- azangru 5y agoWhy do you all dream of Airs and not of Pros?
- radicaldreamer 5y agoI have a 14" Pro but I long for the days of something similar to my favorite Mac of all time: the 12" Retina MacBook. The keyboard was trash and performance was terrible, but as someone who travels quite a bit, it was a dream to use on the go. They've addressed all of these issues with Apple Silicon + new keyboards and a resurrection of the 12" MacBook (maybe with built-in 5G wireless) would be an instant purchase for me.
- bravura 5y agoI'm typing this right now on my 11" MacBook Air (Mid 2012). It weighs 2.4 lbs, 15% less than the current Macbook Air 13.
- mycall 5y agoFanless
- culopatin 5y agoBecause they are lighter and easier to carry around and also to use on one’s lap. I have a pro however because I don’t mind all that that much.
- Tagbert 5y ago
- megablast 5y agoI went for M1 8gb to M1 16gb, mainly dev machine. No change.
- cosmotic 5y agoI was worried 16GB wouldn't be enough considering my Windows machine would crash with docker+chrome+IDEA due to out of memory errors; my m1 mac with 16GB has all that plus countless other apps and runs very well.