Looks like they might be bringing back the base MacBook models.
12.9-inch display
A18 Pro chip
8GB RAM
Fun color options
Roughly $699 price
Not a bad price. 8GB of RAM is pretty low these days
yeah, i saw it was 8GB RAM, and thought, nah. Though admittedly, MacOS is pretty lite on resources. My current Macs are 8GB as they’re older, but they don’t really struggle. But I don’t do much except music and lemmy. So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.
does it matter how light MacOS is, when nearly everything is in the web, which is very much not light?
So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.
Don’t all those units have integrated graphics with unified memory? Meaning that 8GB of RAM is shared with the graphics frame buffer. So there’s less than 8GB available to the OS, right?
Yes but that’s generally true for low end laptops.
The A18 is the previous gen iPhone’s chip. So the target audience is people who could do their work on a phone but want a bigger screen and a keyboard. For people who use the current cheap iPad (A16 with 6 GB) it’ll be an upgrade.
My M1 MacBook Air has 8GB RAM, and it grinds to a halt every time I get more than 10 browser tabs open. Sometimes when waking from sleep, it’s like 5 minutes before the thing becomes responsive again…. So no, 8 GB is not enough in this day and age.
I guess it makes sense as a Chromebook alternative and they probably don’t want to eat their MacBook Air market. At least they’re getting colorful again
on a related note, these might be missing features.
