Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eurekin on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:44PM (#39594233)

That's so extremely backwards in relation to everything else it's mind boggling. 16 gb being considered and priced at premium, where I had a single chrome tab eating 3gb easily few time's recently.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by superb_dev on Monday March 04, 2024 @03:16PM (#39595443)

What website were you on? 3gb for a Chrome tab is just plain unacceptable in most cases

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eurekin on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:11PM (#39597421)

https://belladoreai.github.io/llama-tokenizer-js/example-dem...

where I measured tokens in my requests before sending things to openai API to ballpark the cost

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by threeseed on Monday March 04, 2024 @03:58PM (#39595990)

So stop using Chrome.

There are other browsers that are far more memory efficient.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by Dah00n on Monday March 04, 2024 @05:58PM (#39597307)

BrowserS? I can only think of one (and it isn't Safari).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eurekin on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:03PM (#39597353)

That solves the browser.

What about colima vm for docker? Intellij, gradle daemon, android studio, xcode, electron apps, android virtual device, slack, spring boot apps, iMovie, Davinci Resolve, python notebooks?

Phones now have more than 8gb of RAM

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by threeseed on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:58PM (#39598157)

If you're doing software development then you really should buy the Pro.

The limiting factor won't be the memory but the thermal throttling.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eurekin on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:39AM (#39601234)

Of course I do, I have a 16 and 32 pros as well.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by skydhash on Monday March 04, 2024 @11:25PM (#39599440)

Do you use everything together? My opinion is that if you'd use any of that seriously you buy the device that let it run correctly. Opening a multi-module project in Android Studio that requires something like 6GB or ram for the index, then running it inside a 3GB emulator on an 8GB laptop is just asking for problem. Be mindful of your RAM usage and select the suitable amount for your use cases.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by xetplan on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:40PM (#39597612)

It is really outrageous looking at the price of 2 X 8 gig sticks right now.

It is exactly why I haven't bought anything from Apple since the ipod.

Everything sounds amazing/wonderful and then one mind boggling deal breaker that doesn't even seem to make economic sense but just feels petty.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eurekin on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:13AM (#39601480)

What I'm more surprised of is that it's so defended, as if "I'm using it wrong"

[ Parent | on HN ]