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Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

www.macrumors.com Entire Mac Lineup Now Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era

Apple this week announced new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro models, and they are all available with a minimum of 16GB of RAM. Apple also announced...

About time. This also applies to their older models such as M2 and M3 laptops.

In the U.S., the MacBook Air lineup continues to start at $999, so there is no price increase associated with the boost in RAM.

The M2 macbook air now starts at $1000 for 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. Limited storage aside, that's surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops.

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insultingly tiny, unupgradeable storage aside, that's surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops
- It's not ideal, but you're getting probably the best hardware in the market in return. The M series still dominates Windows CPUs, and the build quality on most $1000 laptops leaves a lot to be desired.
  
  build quality on most $1000 laptops
  You're not kidding.
  I have a couple of laptops from various vendors, and they're all built like shit.
  ASUS is especially eyerolly: the case is literally crumbling into pieces. Like seriously? You couldn't have picked a material that's not literally going to disintegrate in two years on a $1200 laptop?
  
  Yeah, a lot of manufacturers are just bad. I knew people who had Dell and MSI laptops and those things feel like toys. Cheap plastic and very wobbly hinges. The only manufacturer I genuinely trust is Lenovo. My Legion is a bit thick but I can at least rest easy that it's built well.
  
  Lenovo is, outside of their really cheap consumer options - like, the $500-and-under options - are pretty solid.
  But yeah build quality is one reason when I roll my eyes at the 'haha stupid buying apple! apple tax! lol ripped off!' crowd: I mean maybe, but as soon as you pick up a Macbook whatever it's immediately obvious that you're getting something for what you're paying, and not some bendy flexy piece of plastic crap that will maybe physically survive the warranty period, but not much more.
  
  I saw someone’s Samsung laptop last year and the screen was wobbling all over the fucking place. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I commented on it, and the owner just gave me a blank look.
  
  The best? Debatable. You ever watch Louise on YouTube? He constantly rags on bad hardware design when repairing MacBooks lol.
  
  There's hardware performance and then there's hardware repairability. He's talking about the latter.
  
  That's what I'm talking about too. Hardware repairability.
  
  and I'm saying that Simple was talking about hardware performance
  
  You said the "latter" which refers to the last thing you mentioned which was reliability. You mean "former", then.
  
  by "he" i meant louis lol
  
  That makes more sense lol

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