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Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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About time. This also applies to their older models such as M2 and M3 laptops.

In the U.S., the MacBook Air lineup continues to start at $999, so there is no price increase associated with the boost in RAM.

The M2 macbook air now starts at $1000 for 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. Limited storage aside, that's surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

insultingly tiny, unupgradeable storage aside, that's surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

It's not ideal, but you're getting probably the best hardware in the market in return. The M series still dominates Windows CPUs, and the build quality on most $1000 laptops leaves a lot to be desired.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The best? Debatable. You ever watch Louise on YouTube? He constantly rags on bad hardware design when repairing MacBooks lol.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's hardware performance and then there's hardware repairability. He's talking about the latter.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what I'm talking about too. Hardware repairability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and I'm saying that Simple was talking about hardware performance

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You said the "latter" which refers to the last thing you mentioned which was reliability. You mean "former", then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

by "he" i meant louis lol

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

That makes more sense lol

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