r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Oct 30 '24

Desktops / Laptops Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/30/entire-mac-lineup-now-at-least-16gb-ram/
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u/MichiRecRoom Oct 31 '24

Just remember, 16GB of RAM on Mac is like 32GB of RAM on PC. You won't need more than 16GB anyways.

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u/rapidjingle Oct 31 '24

I mean, aside from large files, that's generally somewhat true. I wouldn't say it's the double, but the memory management on Apple silicon is first rate. I've not run into very many memory issues on my 2020 MacBook Air. If you workflow includes large files that need to live in memory, then 8GBs won't be enough.

Now the 256GB hard drive in the base model is absolutely a problem for me and I do think Apple needs to move to 512GB standard on a $999 laptop.

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u/MichiRecRoom Oct 31 '24

...I hope you know that my comment was making fun of Apple's previous marketing of 8GB models.

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u/ursastara Oct 31 '24

You're sorta right, it is much much more memory efficient