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Not too worried about memory pressure
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That RAM must be thinking "Well, another one bytes the dust"...
I'll grab my coat
I'll grab my coat
According to some on here we've all got low-end MBA's ?
A MacBook Air is low-end pretty much by definition. Look at it this way, imagine what is coming!
I happen to disagree.
It isn't high-end but I would not describe a machine with this level of performance as low-end. Ever.
But each to their own
A $1k plus is only low end to those who feel such a computer is either beneath their societal standing use, or it can't meet their current computing need.
The M1 does a great job with memory, in my opinion, I have yet to see any memory spiking. And even more importantly, it has been meeting my computing needs for a laptop.
The M1 does a great job with memory, in my opinion, I have yet to see any memory spiking. And even more importantly, it has been meeting my computing needs for a laptop.
But in Apple's MacBook lineup, the Air is the low-end.I happen to disagree.
It isn't high-end but I would not describe a machine with this level of performance as low-end. Ever.
But each to their own
Debating if I need 8mb or 16mb when I buy a new mac (almost certainly a MBA). Since I just use one app at a time (ie I’m not rendering / conpressing anything in the background whilst doing something else), on the evidence here, the M1’s 8mb is likely going to be more than fine for me for the next 3-4 years.
When you compare this to the low-end hardware available for Windows laptops, even the base M1 Air blows every single one of those out of the water. The truth of the matter is that these new Macs don't compete with those bottom-of-the-barrel Windows machines (most of which are now running Windows 10 in S Mode anyways), but the mid-range models that make up the bulk of laptop sales (i.e, the HP Envy, Dell Inspiron, Lenovo Yoga, Samsung Galaxy Book Alpha Flex, etc.). What's considered "low-end" on the Mac side of the coin would be a mid-range config on the Windows side of the coin. What the Windows side of the industry needs to worry about is what Apple releases for the 16" MBP, iMac and Mac Pro product lines. Given the performance of these initial models, future variants of the M-series will likely widen the gap even further, which would actually place Intel further behind the 8 ball and likely needing to make a trick shot to even try to catch up.
That's kind of meaningless without context. What was running etc.