Ask HN: Why does my '15 MacBook Air have the same RAM (8gb) as a '22 McBook Pro?

Post by windowsrookie » Tue, May 31, 2022, 5:20 PM UTC

tinus_hn wrote: post #41

windowsrookie wrote: post #11

Because 8GB still works fine and will continue to work fine for at least the next 6-7 years. Cheap Windows laptops and Chromebooks still come with 4GB ram. I'm currently typing this on a 2008 MacBook Pro with a 2.5GHZ Core 2 Duo and 6GB RAM. It's playing a 1080P video on a second monitor and has 5 browser tabs open in two browsers. Currently using 4.7GB RAM and 60% CPU.

It may work ‘fine’ but really, a system with more memory works better. 5 browser windows/tabs and one video is not really a demanding workload and that’s already using over half of the machines resources.

Post by throwaway290 » Tue, May 31, 2022, 10:29 PM UTC

Macha wrote: post #36

throwaway290 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not asking you indeed. My point is that 8 GB RAM is not a professional machine and is incorrectly labeled. You seem to be restating this point. MBP is supposed to be professional, but I can't imagine using a 8 GB machine. Even on 16 GB M1 RAM is the bottleneck and I get OOM errors.

Oh yeah, like my original stance was that basically the 8GB MBP exists to have a cheaper entry price, and to have something that's a no brainer upgrade to make users actually looking for a professional machine buy the next one up.

Post by ksec » Wed, Jun 01, 2022, 1:59 PM UTC

moondev wrote: post #34

buffington wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you posting these links to suggest that the commenter is incorrect about prices remaining the same? If so, I'm not sure comparing prices of DDR4 are the same thing, since the commenter was talking about LPDDR4.

* 64GB of 2666MHz DDR4 in 2019: $280 * 64GB of 3200Mhz DDR4 in 2022: $240 memory has been getting faster and cheaper, and it really wasn't that expensive to begin with.