Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era
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Apple this week announced new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models, and they are all available with a minimum of 16GB of RAM. Apple also announced...

About time. This also applies to their older models such as M2 and M3 laptops.

In the U.S., the MacBook Air lineup continues to start at $999, so there is no price increase associated with the boost in RAM.

The M2 macbook air now starts at $1000 for 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. Limited storage aside, that’s surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    31•2 months ago

    It’s not ideal, but you’re getting probably the best hardware in the market in return. The M series still dominates Windows CPUs, and the build quality on most $1000 laptops leaves a lot to be desired.

    • @[email protected]English
      33•2 months ago

      build quality on most $1000 laptops

      You’re not kidding.

      I have a couple of laptops from various vendors, and they’re all built like shit.

      ASUS is especially eyerolly: the case is literally crumbling into pieces. Like seriously? You couldn’t have picked a material that’s not literally going to disintegrate in two years on a $1200 laptop?

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        6•2 months ago

        Yeah, a lot of manufacturers are just bad. I knew people who had Dell and MSI laptops and those things feel like toys. Cheap plastic and very wobbly hinges. The only manufacturer I genuinely trust is Lenovo. My Legion is a bit thick but I can at least rest easy that it’s built well.

        • @[email protected]English
          11•2 months ago

          Lenovo is, outside of their really cheap consumer options - like, the $500-and-under options - are pretty solid.

          But yeah build quality is one reason when I roll my eyes at the ‘haha stupid buying apple! apple tax! lol ripped off!’ crowd: I mean maybe, but as soon as you pick up a Macbook whatever it’s immediately obvious that you’re getting something for what you’re paying, and not some bendy flexy piece of plastic crap that will maybe physically survive the warranty period, but not much more.

        • paraphrandEnglish
          4•2 months ago

          I saw someone’s Samsung laptop last year and the screen was wobbling all over the fucking place. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I commented on it, and the owner just gave me a blank look.

    • yeehawEnglish
      3•2 months ago

      The best? Debatable. You ever watch Louise on YouTube? He constantly rags on bad hardware design when repairing MacBooks lol.

      • Aatube
        18•2 months ago

        There’s hardware performance and then there’s hardware repairability. He’s talking about the latter.

        • yeehawEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          That’s what I’m talking about too. Hardware repairability.

          • Aatube
            5•2 months ago

            and I’m saying that Simple was talking about hardware performance

            • yeehawEnglish
              1•2 months ago

              You said the “latter” which refers to the last thing you mentioned which was reliability. You mean “former”, then.