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0 pointsmaccard22d ago0 comments

This is an absolutely solid buy I think. My wife's macbook is no longer receiving MacOS (and as a result Safari) updates, and all she needs it for is "big laptop tasks" and occasional video calls. This is the absolute perfect purchase for her.

A return to 8GB laptops would be a good thing overall, so if this becomes a "target" for electron based apps, it would be a total game changer. The iPhone 17 has 8GB RAM, and honestly for the workloads we're doing it should be enough. I think there was a big jump when we jumped to 1080 screens on laptops about a decade ago (seriously...) but most of the resource usgae growth there has been needless since.

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arximboldi22d ago

> My wife's macbook is no longer receiving MacOS (and as a result Safari) updates, and all she needs it for is "big laptop tasks" and occasional video calls. This is the absolute perfect purchase for her.

So the only reason to discard a working laptop is because Apple decided to stop offering updated, and you buy Apple again? Why not buy anything else that is Linux friendly and you get software updates until the hardware dies?

Do yourself and the world a favor and buy this instead: https://frame.work/de/en/laptop12

maccardOP22d ago

> why not buy anything else that is Linux friendly and you get software updates

I don’t want to use Linux at home.

> do yourself and the world a favor and buy this instead:

It’s 50% more expensive when you add in the memory and the hard drive. It’s a 12 year old laptop being replaced - I care more about the ecosystem it fits into and the devices usability than I do about being able to replace the keyboard in a decade. (And framework haven’t even been around as long as I’ve had this laptop).

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