Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era
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Apple this week announced new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models, and they are all available with a minimum of 16GB of RAM. Apple also announced...

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.

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    13 days ago

    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.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        13 days ago

        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.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          13 days ago

          My current Linux machine needed exactly zero config post install, and even stuff like the fingerprint reader is working, I’m using it instead of passwords in a terminal.

          I can also play games pretty well, it’s usually smoother and less buggy than on Windows.

          I feel Linux is not a compromise for me anymore, Windows is fast becoming one though.

          • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            13 days ago

            What distro would you recommend, I’m prepared to try over the weekend.

            How does it work with GPU drivers for a GeForce RTX 4080?

            Anything else I need to be aware of

            • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              12 days ago

              I’m running Fedora KDE on a Framework laptop and a custom built machine, but they are all AMD so IDK about Nvidia cards.

              As I’ve heard Nvidia nowadays releases Linux drivers.

              TBH I haven’t had any problems installing and using Linux for years now, I think just go for it and see what happens.

              • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                7 days ago

                So I actually did it and wiped my Windows PC, nothing on there I needed to keep.

                Set up Fedora and added the Nvidia Drivers.

                Shut down for a few days and in my next boot I downloaded CoolerControl. Then my networking died and I’m at a loss as to what happened.

                And people said it was just the same as using windows, yet me a massive nerd, software developer was stuck without ever having attempted to play games.