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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by asddubs on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:42AM (#27233280)
I bought a macbook air in ~2012 and it was unusably slow after a year. bought a thinkpad to put linux on after that that I'm still using today (although admittedly it's a bit of a wreck now - still, it lasted for 8 years)
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by bipson on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:53AM (#27233391)
The MacBook Air was not really a "high performance" machine to start with though - you can't compare that with a ThinkPad :)

And it was seldomly updated, so you could get very aged specs.

If you bought a MacBook 2011/2012 you would typically get an HDD and between 4 and 8GB RAM. Software requirements/demands sky-rocketed shortly after that. On a non-Air you could at least upgrade this yourself, which gave the machine new life ("just like new")

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by asddubs on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:19AM (#27234272)
it did have a 128gb ssd. The thinkpad was also an x1 carbon (also 4gb of ram), so it had a similar form factor, not sure about cpu specs, I probably should have mentioned that.
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by unfunco on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:41AM (#27233875)
I bought the 2011 MacBook Air 11" and it still performs really well for everyday tasks, probably the best computer I've ever owned.
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by asddubs on Friday May 21, 2021 @10:21AM (#27234308)
Interesting, I wonder why mine slowed down so much then. From what I remember it was after an OS upgrade, it was my first time trying a mac, and I ended up being disappointed and going back to linux, but I also didn't do a deep dive into figuring out the reasons for it.
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by sgerenser on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:14PM (#27236906)
I believe the 2011 era MacBook Air (EveryMac.com confirms only the 11”) had an entry level 2GB RAM variant. That one probably got pretty painful after just a couple OS updates.
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