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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

Apple says 8GB is dandy for most mainstream tasks but that's not actually true.

Even if there is such a thing as light video editing or casual gaming and even if an 8GB Mac does those tasks tolerably well, 8GB still isn't acceptable. I used to have an 8GB Apple silicon Air and to be frank it was a nightmare, constantly running out of memory just browsing the web. I won't go into them here for fear of being set upon en masse by my co-workers and pummelled into a quivering puddle of blood and hair.

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