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expiredZXL posted Mar 15, 2024 12:50 PM
Apple MacBook Air: 13.3" Retina, M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
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But somehow the argument is always "MacOS has always done a better job of managing memory". That's irrelevant. You cannot fit 16GB into 8GB.
"Same goes for storage, if you need more than 256gb, then get more. This isn't hard."
It's not hard, it is apple fanboy kept saying how apple have some black magic and that 256GB is enough.
I have 2TB SSD on a non-apple device, and it only cost $115, instead of Apple's absurd $600. I can buy an entire laptop for that price.
256gb is also enough for most people. My wife has a 2020 M1 air with 8gb of RAM and 256gb of storage and she's no where near the storage limit. We use a NAS for most of our storage needs and cloud storage for other things. I have a need for more storage, so I bought a laptop with more storage. Again, not hard, nothing black magic, good for you for paying $115 for 2tb of storage...literally no one cares how much you paid or what others paid for their stuff but this apple hatred seems to be living rent free in your head.
256gb is also enough for most people. My wife has a 2020 M1 air with 8gb of RAM and 256gb of storage and she's no where near the storage limit. We use a NAS for most of our storage needs and cloud storage for other things. I have a need for more storage, so I bought a laptop with more storage. Again, not hard, nothing black magic, good for you for paying $115 for 2tb of storage...literally no one cares how much you paid or what others paid for their stuff but this apple hatred seems to be living rent free in your head.
I highly doubt 256gb is enough for most people, as that's just 32GB.
There's no apple hatred, you are just apple fanboy who just can't accept that apple machines are way overpriced and far inferior
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I highly doubt 256gb is enough for most people, as that's just 32GB.
There's no apple hatred, you are just apple fanboy who just can't accept that apple machines are way overpriced and far inferior
And yes, i'm an apple fanboy, if you think that's some sort of dig go fly a kite. The apple silicon machines run circles around anything remotely close to it from the windows side. Go watch the reviews and come back when you're a bit more educated (which you won't, so just stay away).
OCR has been around for decades in windows and linux.
"show me a windows machine that has full day battery".
Plenty available from Asus, samsung, LG, Acer, HP, etc. Once again, just b/c you are too lazy to lookup doesn't mean they don't exist.
"syncing is trash".
Again, learn how to use the proper tools. Servers run on Windows and Linux, if syncing is trash, 99% of the web won't work.
"dont need 1tb".
Good for you. but for most people, 256GB is not enough. Apple fanboys kept raving about how efficient mac OS is. But the point is I cannot store 1TB in 256GB!
name some models that have full day battery
show me an android + PC setup where I can easily view my text messages, sign a document from my phone onto pc, and airdrop...
as for the comment on 1TB drives, do you have zero self awareness? if this isnt for you, get lost, nobody cares about your opinion, get over it.
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Yes, Apple's upgrade pricing sucks, that's no secret, and the fact that you can't do a self-upgrade after the purchase sucks even more (I'm not convinced that "unified memory" couldn't be implemented using upgradeable RAM, such as LPCAMM2, and of course there's no perfomance advange to a soldered-on SSD). But for a laptop that's being used for standard web apps or office work, why would you need that much storage? What applications require that much space? I've happily used Windows machines with 128GB or 256GB SSDs for several years. If you want to store media for consumption, use an external drive. If you like the MacOS UI and ecosystem (I don't, particularly, which is why I've stuck with Windows, even though I've been a Unix user since before Linux or even the web existed), and you don't have any truly high demand requirements, you'll most likely be happy with this machine for several years.
Paging is when it gets written to disk/SSD. You are completely clueless.
The whole point of having ENOUGH RAM is so that you can avoid that painfully slow paging process from happening in the first place.
Vast majority of users don't just use "a single application". Open up your process thread, see how many is in there.
As for storage, the whole point of haivng a LAPTOP is so that it can be easily transported.
Apple fanboy kept talking about how this MAC have "all day battery life" (it doesn't), but don't mind carrying 3 dongles and external HDDs? If portability is your main concern, then you should get a well equipped non MAC, where you don't need any extra stuff to lug around.
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