alt Hacker NewsThe 8GB RAM makes this barely usable, but it is understandable since Apple doesn't want to cannibalize their own Pro line.
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For people browsing HN or following any tech YouTube channel, 8GB is barely usable. But for anyone else, 8GB is still ‘okay’.
No Apple Intelligence, but my Macbook Air M1 with 8 GB of RAM is plenty usable still
Maybe not "barely usable," but it certainly makes it more like a "terminal" of the old days or a "thin client" than anything, especially considering how bloated macOS is. This machine would fly however with Linux and a lightweight DE.
I'll get one for my mom who uses facebook and pinterest and the occasional recipe website. I'm sure it'll be enough power for the average user.
My M2 8gb ram is plenty for the use case the Neo fills. This is such a bad take.
Huh? That's double what most chromebooks have in the education space. A fast SSD is far, far more important than the memory in this space. In elementary/middle school kids typically operate almost exclusively in the browser.
8GB will run chat, web browsing and word processors just fine.
Not every person is running 500 browser tabs and docker swarm.
It's got a phone SoC. The use case for this thing is stuff you could do on a phone, but for which you want a larger screen and/or a keyboard. Web browsing, writing a paper for school, household budget spreadsheets. 8 GB is still basically fine for this.