I Recently buy Macbook M3 8GB RAM, but now Apple giving 16 GBRAM in base variant

Aryanldh10 wrote:

Hi

I Recently buy Macbook M3 8GB RAM, but now Apple giving 16 GBRAM in base variant

what do now

You can continue using your computer with 8GB RAM or you buy a new computer with more RAM.

Anche io ho acquisto un Mac book air 15 m3 8Gb, nel mese di Agosto, questa politica di fornire il modello base a 16 Gb la vedi come una presa per i fondelli

Dovrebbero rimediare per chi ha acquistato un prodotto da poco

Apple should compensate customers that just bought a MacBook Air M2 with 8 gb of ram a few months ago. Then come out with every thing have 16gb. They knew that 8 gb was not enough but still insisted it was. Just doing every day task the memory is always full, and is pressurizing. Then the laptop gets sluggish. This is just surfing the internet with multiple sites open. I have to constantly close windows to do another task. I recently bought a M4 Mac mini with 24gb and the ram stays around 18gm. This is just normal use, so Apple knew that this was an issue and still sold 8gb as standard.

Wrong about what?

Apple would not have put the M4's out with 16gb if they knew that 8 gb was not enough memory. Then charging $200 to increase the memory. They should have offering the base models with 16gb with M1 and M2's.

Wrong about just doing normal task on a Mac takes up 16 gb of ram? Then the Mac is constantly swapping out the memory and slowing down the system.

KiltedTim wrote:

You obviously don’t understand the R&D cycle in the technology industry.

There will always be someone better, faster, offering more features just around the corner. The industry is constantly moving with new products and better faster versions being released at a blistering pace.

As I said, you’re entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is wrong.

If you’re unhappy about it, is suggest you wean yourself off of technology entirely because no matter what you buy and from which manufacturer, it’s pretty much guaranteed to be superseded by something better in very short order.

You seem to have no comprehension of how far things have come and how quickly.

To give the person to whom you are replying a clue …

1977 – Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 Model 1. This was one of the first preassembled personal computers (another being the Apple ][). A complete system (keyboard, monitor, cassette recorder) went for $599.95. The computer had 4 KB (not MB, not GB) of RAM. The 12" black-and-white monitor could show 16 lines, containing 64 monospaced characters each. There was no support for fonts like Times or Helvetica. The computer didn't have graphics, per se, but there were special characters that drawing as if it had 128 pixels across by 48 down. Forget SSDs, hard drives – or even a floppy drive, unless you had a lot of extra money to spend on a floppy drive that could store less than 88 KB of information on each 5.25" floppy. The processor was a 1 MHz, single-core, 8-bit Z-80 … the sort of CPU that today, might be used as an embedded keyboard or mouse controller.

1984 – Apple introduces the first Macintosh, bringing a GUI to the personal computing market. This machine had an 8 MHz, single-core, 16-bit Motorola 68000 processor and 128 KB (not MB, not GB) of RAM. Storage was on 400 KB 3.5" hard-shell floppy disks. The 9" black-and-white screen had a resolution of 512x342 pixels. By the standards of the day, 128 KB was a lot of RAM for a personal computer; many of the computers from the 8-bit era came with only 4 – 8 KB, and were limited to 48 – 64 KB, tops.

1998 – Apple introduces the first iMac. This machine had a 233 MHz, single-core PowerPC G3 CPU, and 128 MB to 512 MB of RAM. It also had a 4 GB hard drive, and a tray-loading CD-ROM drive. The built-in 15" CRT (with a viewable area of 13.8") supported resolutions of 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 pixels.

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Not just free it became a minimum standard for Apple Intelligence, and everybody who purchased 8GB model are left out.

yes I'm satisfied with my Mac the only issue is how AI will function with only 8gb

It should be at least acceptable or Apple wouldn't support it on your device. The lack of 8GB of RAM is a primary reason why Apple Intelligence isn't supported on older iPhones and iPads.

Regards.

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