Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC

Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by sgarland on Thursday November 09, 2023 @11:21PM (#38215012)

I think the adjective “mediocre” is a tad heavy-handed here. I’ve had a variety of laptops – PC and Mac – since the mid-2000s. Apple Silicon is far and away the biggest leap forward I’ve seen, bar none. On a recent 5 hour flight, I shut off WiFi and only had a terminal open. At the end of the flight, I still had over 90% battery remaining. That is monstrously impressive, if only for the screen’s power consumption.

Add to that the fact that the terminal is nix instead of Windows (Powershell is not the same, and if you’re falling back to WSL then congrats on admitting nix tooling is superior), and it’s a very compelling machine.

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by angoragoats on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:41PM (#38222742)

Yeah, I use an M1 machine for work, and you’re right about the efficiency. But as a creative pro or a developer (two of the target markets for Macs), your machine is the main tool you use to get things done. Calling a machine “Pro” and shipping it with 8GB of memory in 2023 is a slap in the face to those professionals when it’d be less than 1% more expensive to double it to 16GB.

That’s why used the term mediocre, and I stand by it.

I don’t have much to say about the terminal stuff other than that my personal thinkpad that runs Linux does the terminal thing a hell of a lot better than my Mac does.

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by sgarland on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:18PM (#38225314)

If you’re running Linux on a laptop, then yes, that’s even better. However, AFAIK nothing has battery life close to Macs. I’d consider one if they did.

My work Mac is perma-docked, but my personal Air spends most of its time on my lap, and I greatly value the battery life.

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by angoragoats on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:29PM (#38225966)

My Thinkpad gets about 10 hours of battery life under Linux, running an editor, browser with a million tabs open, docker containers, and the occasional video playback. That’s enough for me, and I’m not convinced that a Mac would have meaningfully higher battery life with the same workload (especially running Docker, which is a hog on MacOS).

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