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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 months ago (18 children)

The 8gb ram MacBook works great for your average Mac user. The person who uses it for writing resumes and surfing YouTube which I'm sure is a huge chunk of the market. Devs/Gamers/power users can't make do with 8gb, but my sister in law who just does paper work and teams meetings all day is served well by her 2016 laptop, and wouldn't have any issue with an 8gb MacBook.

[–] TwoCubed@feddit.de 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Given how terrible Teams performes, I'd dread to have merely 8GB to run it on.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago

If you ran teams on the CERN supercomputer I'm pretty sure it would use up all the RAM as well. The more you have the more it seems to eat up.

Very much like Chrome.

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