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FWIW, my son has a 2020 M1 Air with 8gb and it runs just fine still. 8gb in the Mac world is much different than 8gb in the Windows world. Also, I am guessing
by jp_nc 7mo ago
FWIW, my son has a 2020 M1 Air with 8gb and it runs just fine still. 8gb in the Mac world is much different than 8gb in the Windows world. Also, I am guessing most of the Chromebooks currently used in schools are running 4gb. If you need more ram, go up to an Air... reality is this will work fine for most kids and casual browsing scenarios.
- jghn 7mo agoI still use my M1 Air with 8gb as well. I don't do my daily dayjob work on it, but it's more than fine for everything else I do.
- drnick1 7mo ago> 8gb in the Mac world is much different than 8gb in the Windows world. Yes, according to the Apple marketing pamphlet.
- jp_nc 7mo agoHaving used both... it's 100% true
- dgxyz 7mo agoIt's not wrong, it just only works if you stick to the native apps, which you probably should do on a Mac. The problem is when you start throwing half the modern tech stack crap on top which is built on standalone browser engines. They are NOT memory or CPU efficient compared to native apps. Really kills a nice machine dead.
- NetMageSCW 7mo agoWhy would you think the cheapest MacBook available would be intended to use those applications? Apple makes MacBooks for people that need more RAM.
- ciupicri 7mo agoAs if Windows or Linux don't have native applications like MS Word / Excel or LibreOffice Writer / Calc, Firefox, Chrome and so on.