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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] woelkchen 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Shipping with Windows S. That's Microsoft's version of a Chromebook for some light web browsing for 188 dollars. I wouldn't buy it but this doesn't look like a rip off at this price point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They could just raise the prize to $198 and slap another 4GB of RAM on it.

[–] n0clue 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And if they raised the price to $250, they could go with a faster processor and better wifi!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

And if they raised another 2000$, they could add an RTX 4090 graphics card

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

S mode does allow you to turn it off, so it's more like a hobbled version of home.

The computer is as bad as one I saw several years ago with 64g emmc and "Quad core processor." not a quad core, it was literally the name that showed in system. It did have 4 cores: at 400Mhz, boosting to 1.1Ghz. Buyer changed their mind and we couldn't give it away.

[–] woelkchen 12 points 6 months ago

Of course that notebook is bad but for the price point of shitty hardware, you get shitty hardware. Apple sells shitty hardware at the cost of premium hardware.