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Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 month 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] 24 points 1 month ago (24 children)

We use windows PCs at work as software engineers now, but when I was training I used a MacBook Pro M1 with 16GB of RAM and that thing was incredibly performant.

I know it in vogue to shit in Apple, but they build the hardware and the software and they’re incredibly efficient at what they do and I don’t think I ever saw the beachball loading icon thing.

Now the prices they charge to upgrade the RAM is something I can get behind shitting on.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I used Windows, Mac and Linux in the past year.

It's not Mac that's fast, it's Windows that sucks hard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Same.

Mac - Fast, user friendly, and UNIX based.
Windows - Fast (I have a beast), bloated, stupid command prompt (“Add-Migration”, capital letters really.), wants to spy on me.
Linux - Fast, a lot of work to get everything working as you would on Windows or Mac and I’m past those days, I just want to turn the thing on and play Factorio or Minecraft, not figure out if my 4080 will run on it etc.

it’s almost like people make choices to suit their needs and there isn’t a single solution for everybody.

I wonder what the industry standard is for developers? Genuinely. I’ve heard it’s Max, but my company is all in on Microsoft, not really heard of companies developing on Linux. Which isn’t to say Linux doesn’t have its place, but I’m aware this place is insanely biased towards Linux.

[–] kalleboo 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wonder what the industry standard is for developers?

The Stack Overflow developer survey (which has it's bias towards people who use Stack Overflow)... says 47% use Windows, 32% use Mac, and uh, Linux is split up by distro so it's hard to make sense of the numbers but Ubuntu alone is at 27%. (each developer can use multiple platforms so they don't add up to 100%)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for this.

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