I was watching this video and it’s pretty impressive what can be done on this spec machine.

https://youtu.be/d-VOt9559Gk?si=tYlDstnaxtQWoJ88

He opens 50+ apps at once while working in Final Cut and Lightroom. Obviously anyone doing those full time would benefit from more resources but I think this is going to be enough for a big chunk of the population, and will be more appealing than the windows alternatives.

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p_ing 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And here I am on my M2 w/ 24GB RAM and a couple of RAW 48MP photos will bog the system down.

And if Time Machine kicks in, there goes any form of performance since Apple can't seem to figure out what a 'background task' is.

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justsomehnguy 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I still remember how Apple fans run around singing praises what their 8GB M1 absolutely kicked ass of Intel Macs with 16GB (and even more). Only to quietly replace them with a model with more RAM next year or some even way earlier than that.

I can open even 500 apps on any laptop. This is what swap for. But with only 8GB you are getting into the swap territory very fast because you need almost half of it for the OS and video memory.

Eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47272996

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thejazzman 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It did/does absolutely kick ass and 16GB is better. They’re not at odds with each other :D

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dagmx 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

More RAM is better. But doesn’t negate that it’s still very usable. Did you even bother to watch the video for responsiveness before commenting? Also it was a couple years after the transition to arm that Apple bumped the minimum RAM they shipped their laptops with.

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justsomehnguy 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> But doesn’t negate that it’s still very usable.

As a glorified terminal? Sure.

> Did you even bother to watch the video for responsiveness before commenting?

I did, now what?

> Also it was a couple years after the transition to arm t

Hello, we are talking about Neo with the same 8GB.

	▲	dagmx 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s hard to take you seriously or at face value if you did watch the video and called it a glorified terminal. What in the video is remotely glorified terminal like? What terminal are you using that gives you local 4K editing capabilities and the ability to run locally run Lightroom for 50MP files?