Maybe things changed drastically somewhere in the last five years, but when I experimented with a Hackintosh “memory efficiency” wasn’t exactly something I’d associate with OSX. My first attempts were to run that thing in a VM and the entire system was practically unusable unless you have it 4-6GB. I know unused RAM is wasted RAM, but the RAM was actually used by the system processes rather than part of some kind of I/O cache like on other operating systems. With 8GB I could do web browsing and even compile a hello world program I somewhat reasonable time.
I agree with Apple that 8GB should still be plenty of RAM today… for a $600 PC. I know they’re just doing popcorn pricing, but with how cheap RAM is (especially when you leave out the controllers on the chips) they should start their popcorn pricing at 16GB for the price they’re asking.
With their build quality, their excellent screens, their incredible speakers and their practically unbeaten battery life, it makes sense that Macbooks are out of reach for many consumers. These laptops are all top-of-the-line models and for similar specs you’ll be paying a similar price if you go Windows. However, their arbitrary limitations on both storage (and storage speed) and memory are just an insult to their customers.
Maybe things changed drastically somewhere in the last five years, but when I experimented with a Hackintosh “memory efficiency” wasn’t exactly something I’d associate with OSX. My first attempts were to run that thing in a VM and the entire system was practically unusable unless you have it 4-6GB. I know unused RAM is wasted RAM, but the RAM was actually used by the system processes rather than part of some kind of I/O cache like on other operating systems. With 8GB I could do web browsing and even compile a hello world program I somewhat reasonable time.
I agree with Apple that 8GB should still be plenty of RAM today… for a $600 PC. I know they’re just doing popcorn pricing, but with how cheap RAM is (especially when you leave out the controllers on the chips) they should start their popcorn pricing at 16GB for the price they’re asking.
With their build quality, their excellent screens, their incredible speakers and their practically unbeaten battery life, it makes sense that Macbooks are out of reach for many consumers. These laptops are all top-of-the-line models and for similar specs you’ll be paying a similar price if you go Windows. However, their arbitrary limitations on both storage (and storage speed) and memory are just an insult to their customers.