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.

    • dependencyinjectionEnglish
      21·
      5 hours 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.

      • OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Every place I’ve been at had developers using windows machines and then ssh into a linux environment

        • dependencyinjectionEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Makes sense for sysadmin or something but little sense for developers and engineers writing code to build enterprise software.

          • OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            As a developer writing code who used windows to ssh to linux servers I would disagree. But of course it depends on the company and the nature of the work, just offering my experience