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Many people use 8GB/256GB happily. It's like a faith amongst some people that this is bad, but the idea seems to lack evidence.

by jmull 4y ago

gymbeaux 4y ago
"many people" is as anecdotal as it gets. I don't know anybody who A) only needs 8GB/256GB and B) isn't better-served by an iPad or something similar. I think if anyone from Apple Marketing is reading this thread, they are laughing at how people are so instinctively buying into the entry-level Mac mini. The biggest value-add the $599 Mac mini has is that Apple can say Macs start at "just $599". There will always be some non-zero number of people who either want or are genuinely best-served by something like the entry-level Mac mini, but that doesn't equate to it being a generally-good option.
- ceejayoz 4y ago
  > "many people" is as anecdotal as it gets. I don't know anybody who... lol
  - gymbeaux 4y ago
    I got ya beat. You don't know anybody who meets that criteria, either.
- jmull 4y ago
  The onus is really on you to back up your claim that 8GB/256GB isn't enough. I don't see what iPads have to do with this at all. Surely tablet vs desktop is an entirely different decision.
  - gymbeaux 4y ago
    It's just ironic that some people here are really pushing a $599 Mac mini as a valid option, while ignoring tablets. The argument that a Mac mini is a great alternative to a PC in that malware isn't an issue is totally valid, but iPads benefit from that too (and are often less than $599). As I'm sure you know, there are many articles, threads, et. al. out there about whether 8GB is enough for a Mac. We can link articles back and forth all day, but here's what it comes down to: with only 8GB of RAM, even light use will see the Mac offload to swap much more often than if it had 16GB to work with, and one of the first "scandals" that arose from the M1 Macs was that bytes written to the internal SSD was much, much higher than it should have been, because of that swap usage.

Many people use 8GB/256GB happily. It's like a faith amongst some people that this is bad, but the idea seems to lack evidence.

by jmull 4y ago

Many people use 8GB/256GB happily. It's like a faith amongst some people that this is bad, but the idea seems to lack evidence.

gymbeaux 4y ago

"many people" is as anecdotal as it gets. I don't know anybody who A) only needs 8GB/256GB and B) isn't better-served by an iPad or something similar. I think if anyone from Apple Marketing is reading this thread, they are laughing at how people are so instinctively buying into the entry-level Mac mini. The biggest value-add the $599 Mac mini has is that Apple can say Macs start at "just $599". There will always be some non-zero number of people who either want or are genuinely best-served by something like the entry-level Mac mini, but that doesn't equate to it being a generally-good option.

ceejayoz 4y ago
> "many people" is as anecdotal as it gets. I don't know anybody who... lol
- gymbeaux 4y ago
  I got ya beat. You don't know anybody who meets that criteria, either.
jmull 4y ago
The onus is really on you to back up your claim that 8GB/256GB isn't enough. I don't see what iPads have to do with this at all. Surely tablet vs desktop is an entirely different decision.
- gymbeaux 4y ago
  It's just ironic that some people here are really pushing a $599 Mac mini as a valid option, while ignoring tablets. The argument that a Mac mini is a great alternative to a PC in that malware isn't an issue is totally valid, but iPads benefit from that too (and are often less than $599). As I'm sure you know, there are many articles, threads, et. al. out there about whether 8GB is enough for a Mac. We can link articles back and forth all day, but here's what it comes down to: with only 8GB of RAM, even light use will see the Mac offload to swap much more often than if it had 16GB to work with, and one of the first "scandals" that arose from the M1 Macs was that bytes written to the internal SSD was much, much higher than it should have been, because of that swap usage.