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>> fast machine for there usecase

Isn't that what RAM, CPU and SSD are all about? The average user doesn't care much, but at the end of the day if your machine cannot keep up several open apps due to low RAM or cannot store a lot of data because you only have 256GB, that's a problem right?

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Sure, but that border is for a lot more then 90% of users mostly reached with 16gb and an m1/and equivalent...

From a certain point a faster SSD was more important for program startup and the m1 did blow a normal windows laptop out of the water there

And nowadays is mostly how well does the os it's thing, a word doc will not compute faster because you have more cores

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