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Re:MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO by SllX on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:30PM (#47346094)
> The best comparator here is likely the iPhone 16 Pros, released in late 2024. These were the flagship iPhones until late 2025. They are only one generation old. They have the same CPU and the same 8GB of RAM. I have never heard anyone complain that they suffer performance-wise from having too little RAM.

I have 8GB of RAM in my M2 iPad Pro running iOS (yes, it’s “iOS” despite what Apple’s crack marketing team might call it), and I’ve certainly started to complain. Doing anything with the web, and like one or two other apps is enough to have apps I’m switching between page out like every two or three minutes.

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Re:MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry: Asus Co-CEO by seec on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @06:37AM (#47410855)
Yes, I think they changed something in the new iOS; they are trying to get people to swap old devices.

I had issues with swapping before, but with the latest iOS, it has become very annoying on an old iPhone with a small amount of RAM (3GB, I think).

Apple fanboys laugh at Android users for many things, but they can use their devices longer even though they might not have the fastest CPU around (8GB+ has been normalized forever in Android world).

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