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Apple Explains Why 256GB Storage Is Better
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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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Some of my student had brand new 2023 Macbook Air with an amazing 8gb ram!! Those 1.5k$ computers struggle to do anything serious lol.
You sure about that? I got my work to buy me a new one very recently because I need a new one for testing stuff (my main machine runs Windows). I choose the cheapest one available, because I don't need a Pro model or anything. I also prefer a light computer since I often carry around both the Mac and my Windows machine in my backpack.
The cheapest M2 or M3 MacBook Air I could find had 16 GB RAM and 256 GB of storage. It's only 999 USD which is quite cheap compared to my Windows laptop. Not cheap but not bad compared to normal business laptops.
Where do you get your numbers from?
P.S. it's really fucking stupid that the MacBook Air can't do more than one external display. Even the more barebone laptop available the decade should handle at least two displays. Hell even the Pi 4 can do 2 4K displays (at 30 FPS iirc but still)
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'm not denying that 8 GBs of RAM is too little.
My personal PC has 64 GB, my work PC has 16 and the new work PC will have 32 GB.
8 GB is absolutely too little and apple absolutely charges way too much for more storage and ram.
I was just doubting their observation that new MacBooks from 2024 had 8 GB of ram. (They edited their comment. It said 2024 originally)
Btw, 256 GB is not that bad if all you do on your laptop is normal office work. When I looked for a new laptop this week, I had a fairly hard time finding a laptop which filled all of our requirements and had 1 TB of storage. Which is pretty insane considering that 1 TB is really cheap but I guess most don't need it.