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Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever::Apple still sells expensive "Pro" computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m positive the minimum went up to 16gb like a generation or two back. It’s sickening that they went back over.

I have a couple of work MacBooks with 8gb for managers and they often complain of them going slow as molasses when having a good few tabs open in chrome. I’m talking less then 10 though, but heavy sites like email and AdWords and other horrible sites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Less than 10 ? Sounds a bit far fetched. Any modern OS with 8 gb ram can handle 10 tabs. It is probably for other reasons may be

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don’t underestimate the black hole of ram that is Google AdWords and Google analytics. And chrome.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Also don't underestimate all of the background services that the IT department loads: email certificate managers, VPN client, DLP client, backup client, endpoint protection, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I noticed the other day that each jira cloud tab takes about 250-350MB of ram. For just viewing a single ticket too! Still doesn't add up to 8GB but ten tabs of that would eat up a good chunk of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I hate Atlassian products.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Have you ever seen a good ticketing system though? Shared mailbox doesn't count.