alt Hacker News8GB RAM was actually pretty workable for lightweight work… until they shipped Tahoe. Now macOS is just a slog doing even the most basic things unless you’re at 16GB. Sure hope macOS 27 comes with some serious performance optimization.
But hey the colors are cute.
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> Sure hope macOS 27 comes with some serious performance optimization.
Ditto for iOS 26. They need some Snow Leopard action, for real.
This is the reason why I am not going to Tahoe. I have heard its very buggy at times and resource intensive.
And I am quite happy with Sonama.
It would be sensible/wonderful for Apple to release a deliberately lighter version of MacOS for these laptops; but their intransigence and (e.g.) willingness to hold the iPad’s OS back year after year suggests they won’t.
Please use the correct names, despite whatever apple says.
It's Mac OS Vista. This is the proper name for this abomination Apple calls Tahoe.
Yeah, not even having an upgrade to 16gb or more makes this dead on arrival for anyone doing real work. Bummer, since otherwise it looks great. I guess it'd be the same price as a macbook air after that upgrade anyways though, so it doesn't really matter.
I'm typing this on an 8gb MacBook and Tahoe. it's mostly fine