I honestly think 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is perfect for this lineup, and they can fully cater to just browsing the web, using web applications, and doing light tasks. I think Apple’s probably going to have 4GB or 6GB of RAM for this…
Absolutely. I work with clients all the time who don’t need more than 8GB. People forget that 8GB of unified RAM on the new SoC is much better-performing than 8GB of soldered RAM. People need to stop pretending that 8GB of stick RAM or soldered RAM from 2016 has the same performance profile as 8GB of unified SoC RAM.
8GB are 8GB, it doesn’t matter how fast they are. It should be illegal selling a computer that’s impossible to upgrade with so little RAM that it won’t be able to hold more than half a dozen browser tabs in 3 years time, seeing how fast web apps are ballooning in requirements and how more and more desktop apps are turning into websites inside a wrapper that take 4x the resources of a native app. The actual price of these things is twice the “starting from” if you don’t want to end up stuck with literal e-waste in a record time.
I honestly think 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is perfect for this lineup, and they can fully cater to just browsing the web, using web applications, and doing light tasks. I think Apple’s probably going to have 4GB or 6GB of RAM for this…
Absolutely. I work with clients all the time who don’t need more than 8GB. People forget that 8GB of unified RAM on the new SoC is much better-performing than 8GB of soldered RAM. People need to stop pretending that 8GB of stick RAM or soldered RAM from 2016 has the same performance profile as 8GB of unified SoC RAM.
8GB are 8GB, it doesn’t matter how fast they are. It should be illegal selling a computer that’s impossible to upgrade with so little RAM that it won’t be able to hold more than half a dozen browser tabs in 3 years time, seeing how fast web apps are ballooning in requirements and how more and more desktop apps are turning into websites inside a wrapper that take 4x the resources of a native app. The actual price of these things is twice the “starting from” if you don’t want to end up stuck with literal e-waste in a record time.