Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen ‘significantly’::A top Apple analyst said Wednesday that shipments for MacBook computers will decline around 30% year over year.

  • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble
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    31 year ago

    The base model is fine as a base model. Most people are perfectly fine with 8 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage to browse the internet.

    It’s mostly their upgrades that get stupid expensive.

    • yeehaw
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      11 year ago

      8 is too small. You load up a browser and a few tabs these days and you’re already almost full. Lots of webapps these days chew 400MB easy. Some I load use 1.1GB. For a single tab.

      • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble
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        41 year ago

        Our office is filled with these base model Macbook Pros, and PCs with 8 gigs of ram. It’s plenty.

        • yeehaw
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          01 year ago

          It’s all in your use case. If you work for an office where your job requires you to do word processing and look at a single web page then yes it is. I usually make my browser cry with the amount of tabs I have. I’m frequently switching between different projects and it’s not as simple as just closing and reopening tabs. Not to mention the other applications I use…

          • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble
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            11 year ago

            Sure, for you and I 8 gigs of ram isn’t enough. I have 32 gigs of ram and an eGPU for my mac Mini and I make that i5 cry.

            But you and I aren’t normal people. We’re nowhere close.

        • yeehaw
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          11 year ago

          I don’t use Chrome. It’s just the way I work and research. Lots of tabs. I also have data from hundreds of machines where average ram usage is definitely around or above 8 GB.