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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ooohhh, wowie!

Meanwhile.im looking into upgrading my 64 gigs to 128, in small part because I might need to, in large Bart because I CAN.

Stop buying apple crap

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Good, 8 is unusable for my workloads and 12 feels like they're just fucking with us

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My sister just bought a MacBook Air for college, and I had to beg her to spend the extra money on 16gb of memory. It feels like a scam that it appears cheap with the starting at price, but nobody should actually go with those "starting at" specs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's about future proofing. 8 GB might be okay for basic browsing and text editing now, but in the future that might not be the case. Also in my experience people who only want to do basic browsing and word editing, end up inevitably wanting to do more complex things and not understanding that their device is not capable of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Exactly. I told her that 8gb might be fine for a year or two, but if she wants this thousand plus dollar laptop to last four years she needs to invest the extra money now. Especially once she told me she might want to play Minecraft or Shadow of the Tomb Raider on it

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