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Apple is launching new products next week, here’s what’s coming - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by osanna@lemmy.vg to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

yeah, i saw it was 8GB RAM, and thought, nah. Though admittedly, MacOS is pretty lite on resources. My current Macs are 8GB as they're older, but they don't really struggle. But I don't do much except music and lemmy. So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

My M1 MacBook Air has 8GB RAM, and it grinds to a halt every time I get more than 10 browser tabs open. Sometimes when waking from sleep, it’s like 5 minutes before the thing becomes responsive again…. So no, 8 GB is not enough in this day and age.

[–] TheYang@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

does it matter how light MacOS is, when nearly everything is in the web, which is very much not light?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.

Don't all those units have integrated graphics with unified memory? Meaning that 8GB of RAM is shared with the graphics frame buffer. So there's less than 8GB available to the OS, right?

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Yes but that’s generally true for low end laptops.

The A18 is the previous gen iPhone’s chip. So the target audience is people who could do their work on a phone but want a bigger screen and a keyboard. For people who use the current cheap iPad (A16 with 6 GB) it’ll be an upgrade.

[–] penguin@lemmy.pixelpassport.studio 1 points 15 hours ago

I guess it makes sense as a Chromebook alternative and they probably don't want to eat their MacBook Air market. At least they're getting colorful again