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In a recent sale, I saw a 15" macbook air for $1750 Canadian Dollarydoos (a discount of $250 from the original price of $2000). For t hat money it came with an
by LegitShady 3y ago
In a recent sale, I saw a 15" macbook air for $1750 Canadian Dollarydoos (a discount of $250 from the original price of $2000). For t hat money it came with an M2 chip, 512gb SSD, and 8gb of RAM.
There is no alternate timeline of this universe that would make a $1750 or $2000 laptop with 8gb of RAM ok with me in 2023. The prices are high and the upgrade costs for RAM are abusive. Of course, it doesn't use SODIMM modules so you can't upgrade the RAM yourself, you have to buy an even more obscenely priced model from apple.
That being said using thin clients with even less control than existing windows or mac computers have sounds terrible too.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoI needed to buy an iMac for my wife's new job, and could only afford the base model iMac M1 24" - 8 GB RAM, small storage, limited Thunderbolt ports, but it's still been the best computer we've ever had, bar none. My wife abused it with huge catalogs built in Adobe InDesign, as well as projects in Illustrator and Photoshop, and the only thing that's held us back is the small storage when Photoshop feels like it doesn't have enough scratch disk. We haven't even noticed the 7 core GPU (vs the 8 core the midrange model gets). Anectdata aside, you know your workflow better than I do so I won't tell you 8 GB should be enough. It definitely makes it less future proofed for sure.
- LegitShady 3y agoits not even enough ram to run cities skylines with a decent city. For a premium product in 2023 costing what it does, the ram should not be 8gb.
- crowcroft 3y agoTotally agree that the current offering from Apple isn’t exactly appealing for everyone, I would imagine other manufacturers will develop products that offer similar specs soon though.