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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won't be able to use it. There's a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it's the closest thing we'll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn't really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

For who? My mother who only use facebook, youtube and googling don't need 8gb

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like all she needs is a dirt cheap chromebook then

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what she has

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then her situation isn't applicable to this topic

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This comment chain made me chuckle. It's such an "internet comment section" ..trope? I don't know the right word.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s a straw man argument that doesn’t address the main point the comment or was making.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That all depends on how much work they want to put into troubleshooting it for her. I got my mom a Mac Mini when her PC needed to be replaced. It’s way less responsibility on my part. I mostly just answer the occasional how-to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Mac is easier than Windows, sure, but not easier than a chromebook. Nothing is simpler than a Chromebook. You can do much more with a Mac, but a chromebook is much easier.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I don't know what Xcode is so yeah, I haven't been found wanting with my 8GB M2. Videos, downloading, web browsing, writing, chat applications, some photo editing, games (what I can actually play on a Mac, anyway), all good here.

16GB+ is obviously going to be necessary though, and not exactly that expensive to put into their base models so it should be put in soon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had a laptop with 8GB. Doing one of those things was fine, but when you open up another program it takes forever to switch to the browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And then you have to activate linux app support for a thing she needs and can not do with chromebook and suddenly it is more complicated than macOS?