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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by ben_w on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:20AM (#25057154)
Not op, but my main laptop is a 2013 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM. It’s old enough to have developed dead pixels, the backlight is now noticeably uneven, the USB ports have become loose, several keys now only work unreliability, and it now does an emergency low power shutdown when the battery reports 55%.

(Naturally this means it is now permanently plugged into mains power and an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse).

Yet the RAM is still sufficient for my use of macOS, dozens of Chrome and Safari tabs, Xcode, TextWrangler, iTunes, etc.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by matsemann on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:58AM (#25057332)
Your use is probably shaped by the limit, though. I mean, a few tabs open in Chrome is easily a couple of GBs alone.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by ben_w on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:21PM (#25060357)
A few dozen tabs, as in often in the range of 24-60.

That one aspect never even seems problematic or limiting, and it’s not like I’m oblivious to all the other things wrong with such an old piece of hardware.

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