you won’t use Adobe’s creator products on an 8GB MBP.
there’s a shitload of students that buy the cheapest macbook that they can afford, because all they know is “professional designers must use a Mac”. They can barely know how to launch Photoshop from the applications folder, how they can know that 8gb is not enough for any kind of work? They see the price it’s $1600, it’s 2-3x than a cheap Windows PC, so they automatically assume it’s the best they can get.
It’s a real disservice Apple is doing to their own brand here. I work with college students in adjacent fields every day and the logic follows as you describe. It’s a $1600 laptop surely it’s capable of anything I need as a student or hobbyist right? Nope. An 8GB machine can barely load the VSTs and other audio thingamajigs they like to pile on it, what is prosumer graphics design going to do to it?
This benchmarking is just nonsense. (I don’t recommend MBP 8GB btw.)
Why do you compare MBP 8GB and 16GB… I believe Apple was talking about MBP M3 8GB vs Windows laptops of non-unified 16GB RAM.
And, of course, you won’t use Adobe’s creator products on an 8GB MBP.
there’s a shitload of students that buy the cheapest macbook that they can afford, because all they know is “professional designers must use a Mac”. They can barely know how to launch Photoshop from the applications folder, how they can know that 8gb is not enough for any kind of work? They see the price it’s $1600, it’s 2-3x than a cheap Windows PC, so they automatically assume it’s the best they can get.
It’s a real disservice Apple is doing to their own brand here. I work with college students in adjacent fields every day and the logic follows as you describe. It’s a $1600 laptop surely it’s capable of anything I need as a student or hobbyist right? Nope. An 8GB machine can barely load the VSTs and other audio thingamajigs they like to pile on it, what is prosumer graphics design going to do to it?