MacBook Air future-proofing: do you get the 8gb or the 16GB?

Posted by ddesposito on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:48AM
from the self-post dept.

Lets say you just use Chrome with 20 tabs open, and some productivity apps. No gaming or VM or video content creation. 256 GB is enough RAM.

You want your Macbook to last 5 years.

Do you get the 8gb or the 16GB version?

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Re:MacBook Air future-proofing: do you get the 8gb or the 16GB? by jmnicolas on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:01AM (#25419027)

16 GB if you can afford. Yes it's always a pain to pay a premium for RAM now, but you have no idea how much memory will your apps consume or how much what you do on your device will have changed in 5 years.

> 256 GB is enough RAM.

You probably meant disk.

I'd feel more comfortable with 512, but it starts to get very expensive.

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Re:MacBook Air future-proofing: do you get the 8gb or the 16GB? by ddesposito on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:09PM (#25421760)

Thanks - its more the wait time than the custom order. I'll go for the 16gb then.

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Re:MacBook Air future-proofing: do you get the 8gb or the 16GB? by caminocorner on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:52AM (#25418916)

16GB

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