Max LeibmanApple introduces $599 MacBook No.
elle mundy@maxleibman all of the book with none of the mac
@exchgr It definitely sounds like they did a lot of de-contenting to hit that price point. But the hands-on reports make it sound like it's still very Mackity. I don't know if Apple struck the right balance or if using it will be a nonstop parade of tiny papercuts.
(Spoiler alert: I will find out next Wednesday.)
@maxleibman 8GB of ram is just simply not enough for my use cases. on iPad? yeah sure. but not on mac. i’m starting to think about upgrading from my 2020 m1 macbook pro and i’m even wondering if i should break my 14 year streak of getting macs with 16GB of ram
@exchgr Totally. There will *definitely* be people this won't work for. I think 8 GB is probably fine for many people on macOS *today* (I ran a M1 Mac mini with 8 GB for four years, and it was shockingly good), but I worry about future-proofing. And I wasn't rendering video or editing bajillion-track audio files or building huge projects in Xcode.
@maxleibman sometimes i run safari, intellij, and lightroom at the same time, which brings my mac to a crawl because the “memory pressure” in activity monitor is in the yellow zone
@exchgr I could see that.