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Model: Apple 2022 MacBook Air Laptop with M2 chip: Built for Apple Intelligence, 13.6-inch Liquid Retina Display, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD Storage, Backlit Keyboard, 1080p FaceTime HD Camera; Starlight
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I daily drive this and would VERY much recommend a higher storage drive over the 16gb of ram as the first upgrade.
Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
Store less video files and it will be fine. You can right-click on the hard disk and select "Manage Storage," and it will show you a breakdown of what is taking up space. On mine, the System Software takes up 82 GB and applications take up another 55 GB. That leaves 119 GB for documents, photos, videos and music. Sure, more space is nice, but it's not essential.
In my case, I'm a photographer and I have many terabytes of photographs, so I use external drives to archive all of my photographs anyway. The built-in storage is just for active editing work so I always have plenty of free space.
If you do not have the money for the 16GB option, I would keep saving until you can afford it. In my experience in tech support, more RAM has really started to become necessary. Even with Macs unfortunately, developers have become extremely lazy and stopped optimizing their applications. Couple that with your graphics processing and AI processing sharing the same RAM, 8GB is not enough for more than 2 years of life for these Airs.
A big reason for not optimizing applications is because hardware has gotten so good in the computer world. Unfortunately for Apple's devices (and soon Windows as well), the specs you choose now you are stuck with as they are soldered. So unless you plan to be upgrading on a regular basis with no intention to sell or hand down your old hardware, the 8GB of RAM MacBooks are not going to age well at all. To be fair, Apple's M processors are so good that if you couple them with at least 16GB of RAM you have a laptop that will run great for nearly a decade. And I do mean great, you see it in reviewers on YouTube still rocking their first Gen M1 MacBooks and admitting they don't even care to upgrade year after year.
For anyone worried about hard drive space over the RAM upgrade, do yourself a favor and get one of those external SSDs or something when they go on sale. They are so small and fast nowadays, plus you get the convenience of not losing or having to recover data from a laptop if anything happens to the machine itself. Because the RAM and Storage are soldered in, you cannot just pop out the hard drive if something happens to your MacBook.
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this means we'll be seeing the 8/256 hit 599 very soon.
i've heard that 99.99% of ppl only need 8GB of ram and that apple ram is 2x in apple math... so i'd def wait for the base model for 600... that's actually a pretty good deal
I just got it from Costco for 700 and now I think maybe I should have got this for 800 but I needed it now and don't really want to return it
Yes, this is the same deal, just available in all colors. I couldn't find the midnight black color on Amazon at a discount so I opted for Best Buy instead.
I daily drive this and would VERY much recommend a higher storage drive over the 16gb of ram as the first upgrade.
Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
this means we'll be seeing the 8/256 hit 599 very soon.
i've heard that 99.99% of ppl only need 8GB of ram and that apple ram is 2x in apple math... so i'd def wait for the base model for 600... that's actually a pretty good deal
Apple says 8GB of RAM is plenty for basic tasks, but Apple Intelligence features may not classify as 'basic' in the company's eyes. Even if current Apple Intelligence features run using 8GB of RAM, it's highly likely that 16GB of RAM will become the new minimum as AI features become more advanced and powerful.
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Apple says 8GB of RAM is plenty for basic tasks, but Apple Intelligence features may not classify as 'basic' in the company's eyes. Even if current Apple Intelligence features run using 8GB of RAM, it's highly likely that 16GB of RAM will become the new minimum as AI features become more advanced and powerful.
Maybe. And maybe not. All iPhone 16s have 8GB memory. If Apple wants to bring the same experiences across their products, then they'll have to make their ML models small enough to fit into 8GB memory units.
Regardless, for $100 diff, I'd definitely get the 16GB one.
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I daily drive this and would VERY much recommend a higher storage drive over the 16gb of ram as the first upgrade.
Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
Store less video files and it will be fine. You can right-click on the hard disk and select "Manage Storage," and it will show you a breakdown of what is taking up space. On mine, the System Software takes up 82 GB and applications take up another 55 GB. That leaves 119 GB for documents, photos, videos and music. Sure, more space is nice, but it's not essential.
In my case, I'm a photographer and I have many terabytes of photographs, so I use external drives to archive all of my photographs anyway. The built-in storage is just for active editing work so I always have plenty of free space.
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This is an insane deal if u like Mac. Storage doesn't mean much to me, I purchased a synology nas so all my devices I always buy the lowest storage. My MacBook that's 5 years old only use 42gb. My opinion, if u can afford it is buy a synology nas+ nas and 2 hdd. Probably looking at $400
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If you do not have the money for the 16GB option, I would keep saving until you can afford it. In my experience in tech support, more RAM has really started to become necessary. Even with Macs unfortunately, developers have become extremely lazy and stopped optimizing their applications. Couple that with your graphics processing and AI processing sharing the same RAM, 8GB is not enough for more than 2 years of life for these Airs.
A big reason for not optimizing applications is because hardware has gotten so good in the computer world. Unfortunately for Apple's devices (and soon Windows as well), the specs you choose now you are stuck with as they are soldered. So unless you plan to be upgrading on a regular basis with no intention to sell or hand down your old hardware, the 8GB of RAM MacBooks are not going to age well at all. To be fair, Apple's M processors are so good that if you couple them with at least 16GB of RAM you have a laptop that will run great for nearly a decade. And I do mean great, you see it in reviewers on YouTube still rocking their first Gen M1 MacBooks and admitting they don't even care to upgrade year after year.
For anyone worried about hard drive space over the RAM upgrade, do yourself a favor and get one of those external SSDs or something when they go on sale. They are so small and fast nowadays, plus you get the convenience of not losing or having to recover data from a laptop if anything happens to the machine itself. Because the RAM and Storage are soldered in, you cannot just pop out the hard drive if something happens to your MacBook.
I daily drive this and would VERY much recommend a higher storage drive over the 16gb of ram as the first upgrade.
Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
Interesting. I would say otherwise. Memory is more important than storage. 256Gb is plenty if you do not store video or play games.
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Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
In my case, I'm a photographer and I have many terabytes of photographs, so I use external drives to archive all of my photographs anyway. The built-in storage is just for active editing work so I always have plenty of free space.
A big reason for not optimizing applications is because hardware has gotten so good in the computer world. Unfortunately for Apple's devices (and soon Windows as well), the specs you choose now you are stuck with as they are soldered. So unless you plan to be upgrading on a regular basis with no intention to sell or hand down your old hardware, the 8GB of RAM MacBooks are not going to age well at all. To be fair, Apple's M processors are so good that if you couple them with at least 16GB of RAM you have a laptop that will run great for nearly a decade. And I do mean great, you see it in reviewers on YouTube still rocking their first Gen M1 MacBooks and admitting they don't even care to upgrade year after year.
For anyone worried about hard drive space over the RAM upgrade, do yourself a favor and get one of those external SSDs or something when they go on sale. They are so small and fast nowadays, plus you get the convenience of not losing or having to recover data from a laptop if anything happens to the machine itself. Because the RAM and Storage are soldered in, you cannot just pop out the hard drive if something happens to your MacBook.
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Edit - they did! $50 less!
i've heard that 99.99% of ppl only need 8GB of ram and that apple ram is 2x in apple math... so i'd def wait for the base model for 600... that's actually a pretty good deal
Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
i've heard that 99.99% of ppl only need 8GB of ram and that apple ram is 2x in apple math... so i'd def wait for the base model for 600... that's actually a pretty good deal
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Regardless, for $100 diff, I'd definitely get the 16GB one.
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Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
In my case, I'm a photographer and I have many terabytes of photographs, so I use external drives to archive all of my photographs anyway. The built-in storage is just for active editing work so I always have plenty of free space.
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A big reason for not optimizing applications is because hardware has gotten so good in the computer world. Unfortunately for Apple's devices (and soon Windows as well), the specs you choose now you are stuck with as they are soldered. So unless you plan to be upgrading on a regular basis with no intention to sell or hand down your old hardware, the 8GB of RAM MacBooks are not going to age well at all. To be fair, Apple's M processors are so good that if you couple them with at least 16GB of RAM you have a laptop that will run great for nearly a decade. And I do mean great, you see it in reviewers on YouTube still rocking their first Gen M1 MacBooks and admitting they don't even care to upgrade year after year.
For anyone worried about hard drive space over the RAM upgrade, do yourself a favor and get one of those external SSDs or something when they go on sale. They are so small and fast nowadays, plus you get the convenience of not losing or having to recover data from a laptop if anything happens to the machine itself. Because the RAM and Storage are soldered in, you cannot just pop out the hard drive if something happens to your MacBook.
Don't get me wrong, the ideal config for this is 16GB/1TB but Apple pricing makes that hard to swallow.
I have constantly run out of space on the laptop and find myself deleting legitimate apps just to do software updates. Recently I had to uninstall MS Office just so I could upgrade to the latest MacOS and then reinstall the apps after.
I have also run into a ton of problems with iCloud due to the limited storage space, mainly that iMessage sync will constantly use ALL the storage during the sync, bringing the laptop to a crawl or worse, and then figuring itself out later but being left with only a few GB of free space to deal with.
I'm a tech consultant full time so I can and do take full advantage of 16gb of memory and love it, but that is only a preference, and if I could go back and swap the storage upgrade for the ram, I would.
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