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.

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    21·
    11 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.

    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      4 hours ago

      I just want to turn the thing on and play Factorio or Minecraft, not figure out if my 4080 will run on it etc.

      Funny that you chose two games that run natively on Linux.

    • OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

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

        • Strykker@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Well enterprise software is either going to run on windows or Linux servers, so sounds like windows and Linux make good dev workstations.

          My current work gives devs macs but we build everything for Linux so it’s a bit of a nuisance. And Apple moving to arm made running vms basically impossible for a while, it’s a bit better now.

          Still a giant pain in the butt to have your dev environment not match the build environment architecture.

        • OhYeah@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          10 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

          • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            What are you writing code for?

            I literally can’t think of an example where ssh’ing into a terminal is going to give good workflow. Just using Nano or Vi?

            Like no IDE.