Introducing the next generation of Mac

Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by winrid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:17AM (#25056200)

A bit out of touch I think. All the midde age mothers I know personally buy $300 laptops from Walmart.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by SifJar on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:58AM (#25056733)

I think the point was that the people who buy the $999 laptops would be fine with the $300 laptops

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by helsinkiandrew on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:10AM (#25057384)

Exactly - I'd guess the majority of Macbook Airs are used for surfing, email, writing a presentation etc. not developing.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by winrid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:35PM (#25063305)

For this 8gb is fine though right? I get the idea - we want Apple to push the bar. But my 2011 4gb MacBook Air with Catalina does those things fine... swapping to an SSD is reasonably fast.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by helsinkiandrew on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:02AM (#25067242)

Yes - I'm developing on an 8gb 2013 MacBook Air - I'd like more RAM, but it is about doable.

But in general MacBook Airs are not developer or video editing machines and they're not speced for that.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by winrid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:34PM (#25063292)

Ah! Then yes I agree.

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