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expired Posted by Dr.W • Nov 4, 2024
Nov 4, 2024 8:49 PM
13.6" Apple MacBook Air: 2560x1664, M2 Chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD (Various)
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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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