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Honestly I think a decent chunk of the complaints are from people who are used to windows which would be using 4-6gb of that ram just on the desktop. That said
by filterfiber 3y ago
Honestly I think a decent chunk of the complaints are from people who are used to windows which would be using 4-6gb of that ram just on the desktop.
That said I still wouldn't recommend 8gb to anyone.
- sagarm 3y agoSSDs and zRAM help too, but seriously 8GB of RAM on a $1600 laptop is ludicrous.
- foldr 3y agoI agree, I'd recommend 16GB if someone asked for my advice (not that they ever do!) My only quibble here is that I think people are a touch too cynical about Apple's motives for putting 8GB in the base models. I suspect the reason is just that their research shows that most people wouldn't notice any difference from the extra 8GB of RAM. That makes it difficult to justify putting it in the base model. We tend to focus a lot on specs on HN, but the money saved from the 8GB potentially frees up additional resources for features that a typical user might well care about much more (e.g. speaker and microphone quality – often neglected by competing manufacturers).
- plagiarist 3y agoI doubt people would have as much of a problem with the base model were it not for the large prices on each tier of RAM. Each 8 Gb is somehow $200. It seems like a scam to list at $1,600, but then, surprise, you need an extra $200 to get to the level of RAM you expect in a professional device. I assume you are right if they only go up to 24 max, but they should explain better why 8 Gb is acceptable.
- znpy 3y agoI had 16gb on my work laptop (dell latitude 7390) four years ago… The thinkpad x220 from 2012 could host 16gb ram already. I really can’t understand why 8gb ram is still so common. A lot of performances issue would just disappear with more ram.