alt Hacker NewsForget people, id like to see Apple themselves optimise the macOS experience for 8gb Ram. The M1 Air base should ideally be useful until the MacBook Neo loses macOS updates. So 6+6 years at least. But we all know M1 Air will lose updates in a couple of years maybe because Apple doesn't want us to keep using old hardware even if it's similar to new hardware.
Replies
> id like to see Apple themselves optimise the macOS experience for 8gb Ram.
How is it not already? MBAs with 8 GB of RAM run great. Macs are incredibly good with memory management.
> But we all know M1 Air will lose updates in a couple of years maybe because Apple doesn't want us to keep using old hardware even if it's similar to new hardware.
I'm not sure if that will happen in just a couple of years because brand new M1A were being sold just a few weeks ago at places like walmart.
I used a MacBook Air with M2 and 8GB for a year, it was fine. Worked on Xcode/Pixelmator/GarageBand and a 100 Safari tabs all at once. Even ran WoW and League of Legends etc just fine, hell even Baldur's Gate 3 if I'm not misremembering.
and before that, I used one of the ancient Intel Core M fanless MacBooks (probably the first one) that was fine too, I mean within expectations; you knew what you were buying.
Apple is people, my friend!
> Apple doesn't want us to keep using old hardware even if it's similar to new hardware.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but is this a fact, i.e. has it been proved?
8Gb mac os runs great for the vast majority of people. You can even do some light development on it.