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Why are tech news websites suddenly bashing 8GB RAM in Apple devices? (links.hackliberty.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by undefined@links.hackliberty.org to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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I’m a web developer but I also do tons of work with large files being transferred across the network, I do some CPU intensive tasks from time to time, run Docker containers, etc. all on a 2020 M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM.

Well it’s 2024 now and the thing still screams. So what I don’t understand is: why are there suddenly so many enraged tech news websites bashing on the 8GB base RAM?

I get it that some people need more than just 8GB, but for the cliche web browsing, email and social media user it’s not adding up to me why anyone is so enraged about this.

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[–] skbo@lu.skbo.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it has to do with Apple Intelligence that requires 16GB.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 2 months ago

This makes a lot of sense. I remember there was tons of speculation about AR/VR around 2020 and Apple was preparing their machines to support that if necessary.

If that was the case, then yeah 8GB is crazy low.