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It's clear that the M3 MacBooks are noticably slower with 8GB or RAM than with 16GB for various tasks, though, including photo & video editing, and 3D rendering.
Sure, 8GB gets the job done but why are Apple selling "professional" grade laptops in this price range that clearly require additional memory to reach peak performance?
Point taken! Clearly more is always better. Don't have any experience with the M2 or 3.
I'm just adding a personal experience with having the minimum be plenty to get big jobs done.
I get more because I know I’ll need more. I don’t get less and then complain I should have gotten more even though I knew I couldn’t upgrade later.
Really, Apple just shouldn’t have said what they did and they wouldn’t be in hot water.
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