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Where the 8gb means you'll be making massive, unprecedented writes to your SSD due to aggressive swap usage when just web browsing (my m1 air wrote approx 1 TB/day for a week until I returned mine), and a smaller ssd to wear out even faster?
Will the aggressive sabotage of their products' longevity continue?
I figure in another year or two, we'll start seeing news coverage of lage numbers of m1s failing from ssd failure, and apple will just say "you're using it wrong"
https://www.macworld.com/article/334275/apple-silicon-m1-mac...
Regardless, "markup" probably isn't the right word, since Apple is the supplier of its own SIPs.
DIMMs would likely be cheaper to the end user per gigabyte (and possibly upgradable!) but it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison vs. in-package memory.
Flash storage is perhaps a better comparison and it certainly isn't cheap, but you can easily add fast Thunderbolt storage.
From Apple's discussion forum.
"If Mac M1’s built-in SSD died" - 2020
I would feel genuinely fooled to pay such an absurd amount of money for more ram when I had a MBP with 16GB of memory 10 years ago.
Hell, even my 2 years old OnePlus 11 smartphone has 16GB of rams and the cost of the phone was pretty much equal to the cost of upgrading from 8 to 16gb a macbook air.
I'm on year 3 of my M1 Air 8gb and it's still perfect. My previous two personal Macbook pros were all 8 gig models.
Why are you trying to argue that the baseline specs from 10 years ago are somehow still acceptable today in supposedly high-end product lines?
I can buy a miniPC for 300€ and stick 32GB of RAM in it. Why are you arguing that this is absurd in MacBooks?
This takes corporate worship to another level.
> The memory upgrade prices are competitive with high-end Lenovo and Surface laptops.
Bullshit. They even solder components just to prevent people from actually avoiding price gouging.
I have a Beelink miniPC that takes $70 to upgrade to 32BG of RAM, and that involves buying 2*16GB of RAM.
That's 1/3 the cost to get twice the memory you mention in your case.
There is no way around it.
I can not run windows 11. I felt dirty giving it access to my Mac partition when I had a M1 Air.
The 2019 16" intel battery life is either great or crap depending on load. I pulled about 17 hours playing music in VLC with minimum brightness and low as 5 hours while doing actual work. The lowest wattage I've seen is around 4W on the intel while 1.2W on the M1 (screen off).
For consumers though, the M series chips are pretty darn good.
It almost feels silly polluting my system macOS install with things like Homebrew and top-level applications and personal/sensitive information when I could have a VM for each project, each game, each cryptocurrency wallet, and a general one for personal entertainment.
It's also the logical conclusion for Python version management. ;)
This seems to be a hole left from Apple’s move away from Intel. I’m part of the niche group of people running Windows on Mac (via VMWare Fusion & Parallels). We’ve been buying Macs for 10 years now and suddenly we don’t have a path forward with new Apple hardware.
We’re currently deciding between changing our development stack to not require Windows or to just move away from Apple.
Parallels does have native support for Windows 11 on M-series chips.
Some games like Crusader Kings 3 are even faster in Windows 11 on Parallels than on native macOS.
It actually runs very well, even on my base model M1 Mac Mini.