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expiredloopydeals posted Dec 20, 2022 07:17 PM
Apple Macbook Air Laptop (Late 2020 Model): M1 Chip, 13.3", 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM
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i need a laptop, are there usually end of year sales on laptops to get uear end quotas met?
I wasnt even considering mac due to price.
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The right answer is always "depends on what you want to do", but if you're doing any sort of work (Slack, email, Word, a couple of browsers open with 30 tabs a piece) you will not regret more RAM.
You can't upgrade RAM or SSD on these things. M1 or 2 will feel like demons coming from non-Apple silicon Macs.
8gb is still 8gb. Just because it's Apple doesn't mean it's blessed with unicorn dust of magic performance.
What makes 8gb so nice and viable is the relationship with the super-fast SSD -- they make -extensive- use of the swap disk. So it FEELS like 8gb is 16gb, but what you're only doing is wearing out your SSD, putting it in an early grave.
But hey, do what works for you. If you think you're special and the rules of the universe don't apply to you, keep dancing in your Disney movie bub.
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Source: Me. I just read the news a lot. I don't have any insider knowledge though.
I personally own the M1 8/256 model and it's super fast until you open too much stuff and then it becomes *really* slow. Unfortunately 8 GB is not very much so "too much stuff" can be done with ONLY browser tabs. Open few YouTube videos to watch later, leave them in the background and you hit the ceiling real quick.
I'm basically always getting memory pressure with a very casual workload of 95% web browsing. The CPU is insanely efficient and is more than fast enough. 256 GB is plenty for me personally since everything is in the cloud. The 8 GB feels like having a sports car that you can only drive in the right lane.
Honestly, I feel like I could have more tabs open on my Intel 8 GB MacBook Pro, although everything else was worse.
I have an M1 Pro with more ram that I use for work and it suffers none of the problems I have with the 8 GB model. It's definitely the RAM that limits the usefulness in my case.
Unless you know for sure that you only keep a few browser tabs open, or you're okay with limiting that, then the 16 GB is a much safer buy. If you stay within the limits of how much stuff you can have open then the 8 GB model is a fantastic machine that is blazing fast, completely silent, and barely sips power.
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If you care about mobility, you could consider the 14" Pro at 1599, and add an iPad, or external monitor for extra screen real estate.
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