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I bought a Mac Studio recently with 64gb of RAM. I adore it, but I am kind of missing the portability of a laptop. I’ve been watching Facebook Marketplace rece

by donatj 4y ago

I bought a Mac Studio recently with 64gb of RAM. I adore it, but I am kind of missing the portability of a laptop. I’ve been watching Facebook Marketplace recently for a cheap Mac Laptop, and I was surprised to find the place is absolutely flooded with near-new MacBook Pros with 8gb of RAM. It doesn’t make any sense, it’s the worst place to cheap out - it’s not upgradable and makes a huge performance difference. I suspect it might be self-selecting. The reason there are so many on Facebook Marketplace is because the owners can feel they need an upgrade. Do they know the reason for it’s lackluster performance being the lack of RAM? Maybe not, they just know the machine runs poorly and are going to upgrade to a newer one with 8gb of RAM. To contrast my 11 year old iMac I was upgrading from has 24gb of RAM and still held up fine as my daily driver. The lack of software upgrades being the thing that pushed me to upgrade.

stockerta 4y ago
Same, I have a 2nd generation intel i5 desktop at home. since I have upgraded to an SSD and the RAM from 8 to 24gb it gained years of new life. Perfectly capable daily driver.
FractalHQ 4y ago
I bought a MacBook with 64gb ram in 2019 and it’s a beast. So much so that I haven’t felt the need to upgrade to Apple silicon yet.
- DanHulton 4y ago
  Huh, that's interesting! I had a 2019 MBP with only 16gb of RAM - an amount I've been comfortable with on other computers prior to that - and it was UNUSABLE. Just MISERABLY slow. Upgraded to Apple Silicon with the same amount of RAM and it feels unstoppable, just always running at 150% of expected speed. (I would have gotten more RAM in the 2019 laptop, but it was during that brief window where new laptop shipping times were measured in months, and I was happy to have ANY work laptop and not have to be using my old personal one, an old Air.)

by donatj 4y ago

stockerta 4y ago

Same, I have a 2nd generation intel i5 desktop at home. since I have upgraded to an SSD and the RAM from 8 to 24gb it gained years of new life. Perfectly capable daily driver.

FractalHQ 4y ago

I bought a MacBook with 64gb ram in 2019 and it’s a beast. So much so that I haven’t felt the need to upgrade to Apple silicon yet.

DanHulton 4y ago
Huh, that's interesting! I had a 2019 MBP with only 16gb of RAM - an amount I've been comfortable with on other computers prior to that - and it was UNUSABLE. Just MISERABLY slow. Upgraded to Apple Silicon with the same amount of RAM and it feels unstoppable, just always running at 150% of expected speed. (I would have gotten more RAM in the 2019 laptop, but it was during that brief window where new laptop shipping times were measured in months, and I was happy to have ANY work laptop and not have to be using my old personal one, an old Air.)