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8gb vs 16gb

  1. 6

    NEED SERIOUS ADVICE ASAP 🥲

    I am a Computer science degree student in search for a laptop i hate windows machine and their lagging , i would rather use parallels anyway onto the subject i am in between an m3 macbook air 8gb or an m2 8gb or 16gb . cant affford the extra price for the m3 16gb. i want it to be futureproof for...
  2. M

    Pro M1 8GB | Pro M2 8GB | Air M1 16GB | Air M2 16GB

    Hi, I got into a situation where I need advice which of these idols to choose: MacBook Pro 13" M1 8core 8GB 512GB MacBook Pro 13" M2 8core CPU 10core GPU 8GB, 256GB MacBook Air 13" M1 8core 16GB 256GB MacBook Air 13" M2 8core CPU 8core GPU 16GB 256GB Usage: - adobe photoshop - adobe...
  3. J

    Advice mac mini

    Days ago i asked for 8gb or 16gb RAM for mac mini M1. Gonna go for 16gb. But now i listened that is rumored a keynote in 8 march, and maybe a mac mini m2. Should i wait or not? The price of 16gb ram 256gb will be the same as now? Refurnished (mac mini 1) will be cheaper?
  4. ctjack

    Don't buy M1 Air with 8Gb of RAM

    I was a happy camper with my Air m1 512gb/8Gb of RAM on macOS 11.2. Even though my usage got me close to 100% used, i couldn't care less because i was really making it work hard with tons of tabs open in every software while driving 2k external - so 2 displays. But then i fall a victim of OS...