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Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well enterprise software is either going to run on windows or Linux servers, so sounds like windows and Linux make good dev workstations.

My current work gives devs macs but we build everything for Linux so it's a bit of a nuisance. And Apple moving to arm made running vms basically impossible for a while, it's a bit better now.

Still a giant pain in the butt to have your dev environment not match the build environment architecture.