Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,...

8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro ‘Analogous to 16GB’ on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,…

  • @[email protected]English
    43•1 year ago

    I call BS. My 8gb Mac Mini is terrible and constantly running out of memory.

    I’m in need of a new laptop, but the lack of upgradeable RAM in these has really made it hard to justify. A minimum of 32gb, preferred 64gb (photographer working with very large files) costs hundreds extra and can’t be done by myself anymore. It’s also hard to find these ones used as the people who buy them have a specific use case and don’t replace them often.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      Same here with my M1 MBA. Simply opening a browser with a bunch of tabs + a couple of productivity apps eats up your RAM.

      • edricEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Thanks for sharing. I was eyeing the M2 MBA for my wife because I’m pretty satisfied with my work M1 MBP (32GB RAM), but it seems even apple silicon won’t really do much with just 8GB RAM anyway.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      I’m in need of a new laptop, but the lack of upgradeable RAM in these has really made it hard to justify.

      Framework. Framework or desktop computer.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        Framework doesn’t fit the usecase, and I’m not running Linux or windows on a laptop

        I need a laptop with specifically huge battery life, a mainstream OS and Adobe compatibility.

        Edit: You really shouldn’t be downvoted for suggesting Framework. For anyone who wants a decently powerful windows or Linux laptop, it’s a great product, it just unfortunately doesn’t fit the use case that I have in mind for a laptop.

      • @[email protected]English
        22•1 year ago

        M1, but same idea. One app can take 8gb of RAM easy on it. No matter the improvements to the architecture, they’re not going to be able to solve for poor implementation on the dev side