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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eropple on Monday March 04, 2024 @04:44PM (#39596524)
Just checking: are you saying that the M2 and M3 make 8GB/256GB viable, or that they were for the M1 Air too? Because I had an M1 Air with 8GB of RAM for a while, and that thing was painful. I haven't had to be careful about how many tabs I had open in a browser for a long time--but I also haven't had 8GB of RAM in a long time, either.
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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by sgarland on Monday March 04, 2024 @07:09PM (#39597810)
I’ve had my base M1 since a few months after launch, and the only slowdowns I’ve experienced are when I turn on low power mode. Even then, it’s more that apps are slow to launch, not that they’re unresponsive once open.

I generally have between 4-10 tabs at any given time; how many do you have?

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eropple on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:10AM (#39616105)
I mean I haven't had it for a couple years because I swapped it for a M1 Max. But a lot more than that, just absentmindedly. Even when they unloaded over time.
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