That is a reason why if you can, always buy from a place that has a great return policy (like Costco!).
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Apple Announces MacBook Air Now Starts With Increased 16GB of RAM With No Price Increase
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Where are all those folk who said 8GB was more than enough???
Back in March? 100% no way they will make any adjustments after 7 months!
A "couple" of months is likely about 5, if one assumes that the M4 rollout is following the same pattern as the M3, which it appears to be. That's nearly half a year still.
I mean, it probably still is for them, and for others. It's not hard to understand that different people have different needs.
You're definitley right, I'm not even going to bother. Just unfortunate for the change mid-generation having already purchased. I'll just look at it as me paying the extra $200 to get my Air 7 months early lol
Glad that you see the value. $200 sometimes is $200. But you can't replace what the laptop is providing you at the moment. After hearing rumors 4 months ago of Apple discontinuing the 8GB model, this was well needed for Apple. You seeing the value of 16GB allowed you to future proof at moments like this...I don't feel the need to do that. I got a good deal with the extra back to school gift card, I'm still happy. I understand not everyone would be
That sucks, but it's still a very good computer that will probably perform well for the duration of their college program.
it is for the majority of users
however if a majority of users now want to use apple intelligence, they'll actually have a need for 16gb
Not me....as I sell Macs and try to help customers avoid this costly mistake for long term use and performance stability.
Return it and get a new one. It should still be within the return window.
Sure will. My ex did the last year of undergrad and her entire graduate biology degree on a MacBook Air with 4gb/128gb.
They had to or Apple Intelligence would not run on them.
Apple Intelligence currently runs on the 8gb M-Series Macs just fine.
..it might suck in the future, though. 15.2, perhaps?
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Hopefully it means that more substantial changes are coming besides M4. Ditto for Studio.
Just bought the M3 8gb on sale for $899 three days ago. I think am going to return it and buy the new one with 16gb but it won't be on sale. I will get it for $1099 regular price.
Feel free to make fun of more but there are actually companies that will do this for certain products
I could go Steve Ballmer on this one because I bought 15 inch MBA with base spec few months ago and I typically hold on my Macs for 5+ years. Then again I bought the M2 version with big discount right after M3 came out and saved like 600€. And for my light use it’s been perfectly fine so far so I guess it’s alright 😜
I have 16 Gb on my Air and I use it for AI image rendering on device. There are two problems. One if the low RAM that is shared but the second is the bandwidth on the RAM is low compared to dedicated video cards that most people use to render. The M4 pro and Max try to fix some of this...but likely out of my range. But when a 4090 sells for $1600 by itself...maybe it's worth it to stay on the platform instead of buy a dedicated AI machine.
Watch football this Saturday/Sunday. There's one every commercial break. They're bad and misleading. I don't see any clear markers that Apple Intelligence is not available yet in the form they're advertising it.
The Verizon/AT&T ones are bad enough, but the one with the actor from Last of Us/Game of Thrones is the worst.
Actually the birthday one is the worst but I've only seen it linked, I think they pulled it.
The message in each one is that you can be a lazy uncaring piece of **** and it's ok because Siri will make it seem like you care.
Which is strange because the better message could have been how it helped prepare for these situations ahead of time so they didn't become embarrassing. But no, each one is "I don't remember you" and "I forgot your birthday even though we've been married long enough to have older kids" and "I didn't read the thing you sent me."
The last one wouldn't be so bad if again the message wasn't "but that's ok, Siri will help you lie about it."
I bought my intel based mac as the last 27 inch iMac because I was nervous about apple silicon. I was a little bit in a pickle because my kids had thrown the other iMac off a table and busted it so needed to make a purchase but I remember thinking its was best to get intel and then see how the silicon does. Silliest decision ever.