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For me personally, it’s not an issue of being out of touch. I did, in fact, use a 2014 Macbook with an i5 CPU and 16 GB of RAM for nearly a decade and know how
by mananaysiempre 2y ago
For me personally, it’s not an issue of being out of touch. I did, in fact, use a 2014 Macbook with an i5 CPU and 16 GB of RAM for nearly a decade and know how often I hit swap and/or OOM on it even without attempting multicore shenanigans which its processor couldn’t have managed anyway.
It’s rather an issue of selling deliberately underpowered hardware for no good reason other than to sell actually up-to-date versions for a difference in price that has no relation to the actual availability or price of the components. The sheer disconnect from any kind of reality offends me as a person whose job and alleged primary competency is to recognize reality then bend it to one’s will.
- KeplerBoy 2y agoI don't think we ever were at a point in computing were you could buy a high-end (even entry level macbooks have high-end pricing) laptop with the same amount of ram as you could 10 years earlier. 8 GB were the standard back then.
- brailsafe 2y ago10 years the ago the default for macbook pros was 4GB, and those started showing their age very quickly for what was not a small amount of money.
- KeplerBoy 2y agoI'm not sure that's true: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111942 https://support.apple.com/en-us/111942
- brailsafe 2y agoHmm, unexpected. I was quite sure my partner's 2015 mbp was sitting at 4gb, but you win this one! ;) Edit: I confirmed that I was indeed wrong, but the payoff isn't great anyway because that just means that yes in fact they've kept the exact same ram floor for 10 years. Insane.