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Some of my student had brand new 2023 Macbook Air with an amazing 8gb ram!! Those 1.5k$ computers struggle to do anything serious lol.
You sure about that? I got my work to buy me a new one very recently because I need a new one for testing stuff (my main machine runs Windows). I choose the cheapest one available, because I don't need a Pro model or anything. I also prefer a light computer since I often carry around both the Mac and my Windows machine in my backpack.
The cheapest M2 or M3 MacBook Air I could find had 16 GB RAM and 256 GB of storage. It's only 999 USD which is quite cheap compared to my Windows laptop. Not cheap but not bad compared to normal business laptops.
Where do you get your numbers from?
P.S. it's really fucking stupid that the MacBook Air can't do more than one external display. Even the more barebone laptop available the decade should handle at least two displays. Hell even the Pi 4 can do 2 4K displays (at 30 FPS iirc but still)
Maybe they started to include 16gb this year, but I can assure you that the basic model recently came with only 8gb ram. I've had dozens of students with those in the past couple of years. Right now, a basic M3 on Apple.ca is 1449$ CAD. .
There was a recent Lemmy post saying Apple had just raised their minimum RAM specs to 16 GB. I think I came across this in the last couple weeks. I didn't do more than skim the comments since I don't have any products from them.
Yes they did but that's only because now 16gb is equally as bad an experience as 8gb used to be due to the ram needs of their new AI chip.
Again, wouldn't know. I haven't used an Apple computer for more than 20 years.