Let’s be honest 8gb is lower end for a phone now never mind a computer. Then again if someone just wants to watch YouTube or shop on the Web it’s fine.
… one of the tests here is editing an 8K video. There are pro use cases that don’t need anywhere near that much memory.
For example I regularly use an old MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM to run QLab. It’s definitely high - the software sells for a thousand dollars and is routinely used on productions with multi million dollar budgets and it’s commonly the only software installed on at least two Macs (so you can have a second one on standby incase the first one fails)… but it’s just automation software and most of the things people do could run just fine on the cheapest Raspberry Pi (except, it needs the Mac Audio subsystem).
A MacBook Air would be useless, because it doesn’t have HDMI, and QLab is often used for video.
There are pro users that don’t need anywhere near that much memory.
Well, every computer is ”Pro” if you take professional writers as an example. But this is a marketing term anyways, not a definition. If it was an actual definition then I’d take it to cover ”most professional computing tasks”.
Let’s be honest 8gb is lower end for a phone now never mind a computer. Then again if someone just wants to watch YouTube or shop on the Web it’s fine.
Shouldn’t be on anything named pro though.
But if you just want to watch YouTube and shop on the Web you definitely don’t need an M3.
An M3 chip with a 8gb RAM is just plain stupid. The problem it’s not the 8gb RAM per sé.
If that’s all you wanna do then get a tablet, not a damn MacBook pro
… one of the tests here is editing an 8K video. There are pro use cases that don’t need anywhere near that much memory.
For example I regularly use an old MacBook Pro with 4GB of RAM to run QLab. It’s definitely high - the software sells for a thousand dollars and is routinely used on productions with multi million dollar budgets and it’s commonly the only software installed on at least two Macs (so you can have a second one on standby incase the first one fails)… but it’s just automation software and most of the things people do could run just fine on the cheapest Raspberry Pi (except, it needs the Mac Audio subsystem).
A MacBook Air would be useless, because it doesn’t have HDMI, and QLab is often used for video.
Well, every computer is ”Pro” if you take professional writers as an example. But this is a marketing term anyways, not a definition. If it was an actual definition then I’d take it to cover ”most professional computing tasks”.