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> Sheets is limited to 4GB of RAM by the browser, Excel isn't.

Yet excel still limits the number of rows to 65536 or so.

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Since Excel 2010 that limit is 1,048,576.

The last time I tried on a Mac a few years ago, it definitely couldn't handle that many. Maybe I was holding it wrong?

Even a million seems embarrassingly puny these days, considering a webpage can have a million checkboxes rendered in only a moment.

1M is xlsx file format limitation, and Excel on Mac can work with 1M just fine. But Excel is spreadsheet and not a database, so if you use it for so big datasets (anything over 1000 rows or so) you are very probably just using plain wrong tool.

Excel for mac is (intentionally?) crippled.

Any serious Excel user has a PC.

One of the few places remaining where Windows > Mac

Please leave out the snide remarks in spirit of the HN guidelines[1].

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I appreciate your efforts to uphold quality, though I'm not sure I follow in this case. What do you take issue with?

The "holding it wrong" part of it.

Was that really "name calling"? It's a reference to antennagate and if anything, if you take it within the original context it's really a comment targeting the product Excel, not a person.

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