alt Hacker NewsIf it runs 4 year old software then you'll likely have a "vast library" available.
This machine is on-par with the "world breaking" top performance M1 laptops when they came out; now it is "insufficient".
If it runs 4 year old software then you'll likely have a "vast library" available.
This machine is on-par with the "world breaking" top performance M1 laptops when they came out; now it is "insufficient".
8GB was a sad amount of RAM back then, and it's still a sad amount now. Ditto for the storage. I'm not complaining about the CPU at all, it's fine. I use an M1 daily, and for work just an M1 Pro and both are fine.
I know there's a RAM shortage. But if RAM didn't matter, Apple wouldn't have stopped shipping 8GB configurations in the rest of their line. Starving these of RAM and storage is the way they've chosen to protect their fat margins of the MacBook Air. Which is fine. I just think these are best recommended only with a giant asterisk that they're for web tasks only, exactly like a Chromebook.