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>I think 8gb is borderline criminally low in the circumstances. I think Apple has a far better understanding, backed by actual data, of the circumstances than
by lowbloodsugar 4y ago
>I think 8gb is borderline criminally low in the circumstances.
I think Apple has a far better understanding, backed by actual data, of the circumstances than you, or indeed anyone here. My wife is still using her 2015 Air and has yet to plug it into anything, let alone 4k or 5k monitors that appears to be the "end game scenario" for posters here.
If you are posting on HN, then 8GB is not enough for you. I bought a 16GB M1 Air and it was great, and the day it came out I bought a 64GB M1 Max. But 8GB is more than enough for most of Apple's customers, and I'm sure they have the data to back that up.
- jmyeet 4y agoI think you’re overstating the technical weight going into this decision. I think it’s almost all marketing. Remember the 16gb iPhone? It really just existed to make the 32/64gb models look more reasonable and so Apple could say “From $lower_price_point”.
- lowbloodsugar 4y agoConfused by your reply. It is absolutely all marketing. Driven by data. They know their market, and the market for an 8GB M2 Air is not the HN crowd. Further, they know that the HN market exists, and will pay more for 16GB.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoIf you mean data from the Finance department, yes. In the cheapest M2/disk combo, threads here have said Apple have crippled the storage bandwidth relative to the M1, so relying on fast virtual memory is no longer an option. In that scenario 8GB is even more constraining than it was a year ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31962854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31962854