frontpagewildbird12 posted Jul 17, 2025 10:02 PM
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frontpagewildbird12 posted Jul 17, 2025 10:02 PM
Grade A Refurb: Apple MacBook Air 13.3" Laptop: M1, 2560x1600, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
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This M1 8gb won't be good for AI or heavy workloads, but is more than enough power for the average internet based user. At this price point, they only have premium chromebooks or crappy Windows laptops. I'd take my M1 8gb over any other if this was my price cap or giving it to a basic user.
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With casual admin use (email, discord, onenote, firefox), I'm hitting 65-70% on a 16gb M1 Air. You'll be slamming the swap memory -- or having to treat it like a mobile by single tasking. Just with that stuff alone, I'm occasionally hitting that swap memory like it owes me money.
You're better off looking at the entry-level M4 Air which routinely hits $850. Yes, it's more than twice the price -- but you're getting a CPU that is significantly better AND twice the ram (just in the base config). For $1000, you can get that same config in a 15" chassis. All with the option to get a spanking fresh 3-year warranty.
If u r really concerned about ram just bring it to local ubreakwefix and they can upgrade it to 16gb by 200 bucks+tax. And they even give 90 days warranty. I upgraded mine and it works very well.
If you know how ram works on Mac os and hardware you'd know this works just fine for most ppl.
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It's insane that you think everyone has the same needs with computing. This is a steal for anybody who wants something well built and that will serve them well for a long time.
Because this came out years ago lol
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With casual admin use (email, discord, onenote, firefox), I'm hitting 65-70% on a 16gb M1 Air. You'll be slamming the swap memory -- or having to treat it like a mobile by single tasking. Just with that stuff alone, I'm occasionally hitting that swap memory like it owes me money.
You're better off looking at the entry-level M4 Air which routinely hits $850. Yes, it's more than twice the price -- but you're getting a CPU that is significantly better AND twice the ram (just in the base config). For $1000, you can get that same config in a 15" chassis. All with the option to get a spanking fresh 3-year warranty.
At $400 you're dipping into the territory of Chromebooks and semi-disposable cheapo Walmart bargain bin laptops (while being a heck of a lot nicer), and those are rarely used for anything more than browsing with a handful of tabs open, for which 8GB is fine.
I'm a dev and technical person of 20+ years and I have 16GB machines that rarely see their RAM usage exceed even half their capacity simply because their purpose isn't RAM intensive.
More is better, obviously, but at some point you gain nothing. macOS holds onto cached files that may not be read again simply because there's no reason to evict them.
An 8GB m1 might not be the best multitasker but it's god damn good at it anyway. I would not advise someone to pay double for an m4 16GB *if all else were exactly equal*. It's a deal!...
Not saying more ram isn't better, but your point is majorly flawed and irrelevant. They sell the minimum they can because margins. That minimum went uo because Ai is a marketing point now that outweighs the hardware expense.
In other words, if you turn on Apple Intelligence or Apple doesn't let you disable it, you may not be gaining anything between and 8 and 16 machine because 8 of it could be reserved
And whatever they do today is kind of irrelevant since they can and do make changes like this on a whim. They already have made it so even if you disable Apple intelligence you can't reclaim the storage space it consumes
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