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0 pointsantipaul3y ago0 comments

I see your point. Essentially, you get a fast computer for contemporary, real world use, for the same price as 10 years ago.

Though if you ignore the specs, the M2 air (for 1500 so you get the same storage space), is probably equivalent – 8GB unified RAM and fast SSD seems equivalent to 16GB ram from decade ago.

Together with the improved software capabilities, I think the overall "experience" is "better" and you get more bang for buck.

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asdff3y ago

How is 8gb of ram equivocal to 16gb of ram? You can hold fewer things in memory. Certain programs respond to that by crashing to desktop. Frankly the speed of memory is a lot less relevant to most users compared to how much crap you can shovel into memory and not start to see programs crash to desktop.

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0 pointsantipaul3y ago0 comments

I see your point. Essentially, you get a fast computer for contemporary, real world use, for the same price as 10 years ago.

Though if you ignore the specs, the M2 air (for 1500 so you get the same storage space), is probably equivalent – 8GB unified RAM and fast SSD seems equivalent to 16GB ram from decade ago.

Together with the improved software capabilities, I think the overall "experience" is "better" and you get more bang for buck.

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asdff3y ago

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