Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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Howard in reply to @sohi

The screen looks great but I feel like there is just not enough RAM. 8GB is what I had in the Macbook
Air in 2012. Now with 16GB on a mini PC I just need to edit a few photos in Lightroom and the RAM is full, on the desktop 32GB is just enough to run lightroom and a bigger edit in Photoshop or an image stacker.
I feel like there is no point to the speed of the M1 if you can't run any apps that need that. At that price you probably would want to keep the machine for a couple of years but it's already underpowered now.

I did think that the memory looked stingy. But I guess the litmus test for these models is can it run Email, Safari, Photos, Spotify or whatever & Calendar concurrently without grinding to a halt. They aren't workstations for image processing and they aren't targeted for people who need to do that. They are more 'iPads with keyboards and windowing' that run a bunch of apps that wouldn't be expected to consume the whole system in normal use.

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Soul in reply to @Howard
I have the M1 MBP and I'm running:
1. Outlook
2. Teams (chat & constant calls)
3. Chrome (second teams instance)
4. Powerpoint (multiple)
5. Excel (multiple)
6. Word
7. Safari (forum + multiple other tabs)
8. Slack
9. Messages
10. Sonos controller
I have these across 4 desktops on a 49" 5120 x 1440 monitor.

Everything is silky smooth.

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S_b in reply to @Soul

Seconded - on a base M1 Air I have currently

InDesign
Illustrator
Safari
Spotify
Calendar
WhatsApp
Pages

All on a 4K monitor. No issues ever.
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Howard in reply to @Soul

So....what? I have broadly similar on a 2018 intel MBP.

The point is with this release they are not targeting people who need to do that (or heavy image processing stuff) - they are targeting people who want a computer to do communications and entertainment, hence the low(er) amount of RAM. That the M1 can do all that with a bigger screen and twice the RAM is kind of missing the point.

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