I really hope the new Airs have 16GB when they come out (in 2025?). 8GB really is a joke, and £200 for an extra 8GB (for 16 total) is also a joke. My M1 still feels great so I’m happy to hold off until the base model gets the ram bump, but if the M4 ones get 16GB I’ll be quite tempted
256GB storage is also sort of a joke, and I just can’t bring myself to pay £200 for an extra 256GB (512 total). I know it’s very good quality nand but still, the upgrade pricing is eye-watering. So I rely quite heavily on my NAS and use the SSD as basically just a small cache.
I paid £190 for a 16TB hard drive in my NAS. hdds are still a bit cheaper than ssds, and that was a particularly good price, but even so, comparing that to apple’s £200 for an extra 256GB is just insane.
Based on this week I feel like 16 GB of RAM is going to be the standard minimum on all new Macs going forward for at least a couple years, and it’s about time!
I really hope the new Airs have 16GB when they come out (in 2025?). 8GB really is a joke, and £200 for an extra 8GB (for 16 total) is also a joke. My M1 still feels great so I’m happy to hold off until the base model gets the ram bump, but if the M4 ones get 16GB I’ll be quite tempted
256GB storage is also sort of a joke, and I just can’t bring myself to pay £200 for an extra 256GB (512 total). I know it’s very good quality nand but still, the upgrade pricing is eye-watering. So I rely quite heavily on my NAS and use the SSD as basically just a small cache.
I paid £190 for a 16TB hard drive in my NAS. hdds are still a bit cheaper than ssds, and that was a particularly good price, but even so, comparing that to apple’s £200 for an extra 256GB is just insane.
Based on this week I feel like 16 GB of RAM is going to be the standard minimum on all new Macs going forward for at least a couple years, and it’s about time!
A couple years? Hah! Once apple gives it 16 GB that’s gonna be the same amount they have for like 15 years
They can’t do their AI stuff and devote enough memory to the user’s tasks with only 8GB. I’m glad they’ve finally upgraded the base spec.
It really is but adding cheap external storage will help.
That’s not a reasonable solution for laptops