Yes they did but that's only because now 16gb is equally as bad an experience as 8gb used to be due to the ram needs of their new AI chip.
realitista
joined 1 year ago
Compare the experience on that with any Mac (even an old intel one) with 64gb and you will understand instantly how important it is. Now go look at the 1000%+ markup they put on their ram and disk and you will see the problem.
But the change to a base 16gb only happened in 2024 so there's no conflict between your two observations.
I upgraded my 2018 Mac mini to 64 GB and realized that all my performance problems immediately disappeared. Everything is instant. CPU and GPU are totally meaningless for my use case, but RAM is massively important.
I don't do anything fancy, just kind of standard home office stuff- photos, music, email, Evernote, OneNote, etc. But I have large databases in each. I use up most of a 3TB RAID. I regularly cross the 32gb threshold in memory use.
I could get by with 32gb if I wouldn't mind tolerating some throttling, but 8-16gb is off the table entirely. Even my little 16 gb macbook I just use to screw around on while I watch tv can't keep up with just doing email, some text editors and browsers without bogging, sometimes massively.
It's getting to the point where Macs are just becoming unusable due to this nonsense, and I've never been more motivated to leave the platform. I can't pay $3000 for every computer or just live with bog slow computers.
Try living in a small country, there's tons of stuff like that.
It is in the sense that now external storage can be as fast as internal storage, so you can just upgrade with external SSD's and not pay the 1000%+ markup that Apple charges for storage and RAM.
Yet you already have direct neighbors of Russia like Hungary and Slovakia simping for Putin, so proximity to the threat doesn't seem to overcome the tendency towards misinformation and manipulation against your own best interests.
It's true, that's the advantage of a larger user base. But when I compare my homepage of Reddit after 15 years of refinement to that of my lemmy homepage after 1 year, my lemmy one is way better. Most of those niche communities devolve into memes and nonsense like the same questions being asked over and over and over again after a while. Great for searching, but for actually getting content on a regular basis from, mostly a waste of time.
They don't have to have everyone on them to be good. In some ways it's preferable not to. Reddit was far better before the Digg migration, and we might already be living in the golden years of Lemmy and not even realize it.
I think the smartest ones will. Really I don't mind a smart intelligent community like this one.
Here's the prompt for anyone who's too lazy to scroll through the whole thing:
Nearly 10 million children in the United States live in a grandparent headed household, and of these children , around 20% are being raised without their parents in the household.
It's hard when there's easy points to be scored by saying "why should we spend our hard earned money on far away wars when we can spend it at home on hookers and blow!"
1
Ukraine hits 4 Russian airbases overnight in largest such attack, source says
(kyivindependent.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/3600164
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/funny by /u/lol_camis on 2024-08-05 03:35:48+00:00.
1
Satellite photos show aftermath of Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Morozovsk airfield
(www.ukrinform.net)
237
Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech
(www.notebookcheck.net)
view more: next ›
If you run one application and no browser you can make 16gb work. Or if you don't mind constant bogging I guess you can use 8gb, but to me at that point you don't really have a usable computer any more.