alt Hacker News8GB of "unified" memory. That means it's also shared by the GPU. I realize these things aren't meant to be gaming rigs, or CAD workstations, but I do agree that this isn't very forward thinking.
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qn9n • yesterday at 2:53 PM
It's mostly for people who need to edit some documents, a few photos here and there and other things like that. 8GB of RAM is going to be enough for the average user.
soapdog • yesterday at 3:22 PM
it is quite forward thinking, but for Apple, they are thinking you will need to upgrade.
I use a MacBook Air with 8 GB of memory and it's fine. If I've got a browser and VSCode and Blender and PrusaSlicer and Claude and XCode all open it gets a little slow, but Mac is very good at memory management these days.
Someone using just a browser and Word would have absolutely no problem.