• skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    It should be criminal that so many laptops they sold the past few years have 8gb of ram.

    All of those people will be looking to upgrade within a year, which is the plan…

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      9 days ago

      Apple just can’t resist making ridiculous margins from their customers, even when their devices do allow for upgrades to the default configuration.

      For instance, with a Mac Pro, you have to pay an extra $800 to go from 64gb to 128gb of memory. For $800, you could get about 384gb of ram in 64gb sticks from a different vendor.

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      9 days ago

      I know it’s an unpopular opinion in these parts, but honestly, 8gb is often fine for the people who are buying entry level machines.

      I use a 2014 Mac mini for work, which has 8gb of soldered RAM. For sure I’d increase it to 16gb if I could, but I honestly can’t say I have any issues with it. It’s running Sonoma via OCLP like a champ.

      But yeah, what Apple charge for RAM is downright criminal.

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      10 days ago

      What’s the different between you shilling ram today and them shilling upgrades tomorrow ?