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Report: Low-Cost iPhone, iPad, MacBook Coming Early 2026 (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 4 months ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/apple@lemmy.zip

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

or even just a single USB-C port.

I got a single finger response for that

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To meet the MacBook's lower price point – likely to be somewhere between $699 and $899 – Apple may make compromises such as using an older design or display components, 8GB of memory, or even just a single USB-C port.

So, still speculative at this point.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

8GB of RAM is not enough in 2018

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

still speculative at this point

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have an M1 from 2020 that I use daily for just about everything that isn’t video games, including sketching Blender scenes (to later render on my beefy setup), Ableton Live, 3D Printer slicing, 20+ tab web browsing (I typically don’t use more than this personally) and more. It’s never OOMed no matter what I have going.

I get they’re more expensive new, and I’m not defending their price point, as I’ve always gotten mine several years from new, but I never understand this point that I see everywhere. What are people doing that uses more than the 8GB of RAM on a Mac?

If you need to do 8K video production or do research development and need the compilation power, it’s just not the right tool for those jobs, but it’s more than plenty as a daily driver.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

More than a couple tabs of almost any web page and you’ll be in the yellow memory pressure. Add on excel, or any other bloated program and it will start slowing down. You’re going to start closing out of stuff before you hit a hard oom.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Just as a quick test, I opened as many things as I could think to open. The browser has 20 of the heaviest sites that I could think of open. Takes about a second to switch tabs. Using 5GB of swap with 2GB of headroom. Everything is still responsive and I've able to do a full render in Blender. Still not sure what you're talking about.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social -2 points 4 months ago

But it has a big white apple on the back and looks silver or gray!