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0 pointspostalrat3y ago0 comments

Disk can have high transfer speeds but access time isn't at all comparable to ram.

I was interested until I saw it tops out at 8gb. My environment typically needs just over 16gb.

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cassianoleal3y ago

What tops out at 8gb by the way? The previous gen Air gos up to 16Gb, and this gen's goes up to 24Gb.

diffeomorphism3y ago

Their website presentation tops out at 8.

If I go to their store website it shows me only two options:

- 8 core, 8 core gpu, 8gb, 256

- 8 core, 10 core gpu, 8gb, 512

No indication whatsoever that this 8gb is not fixed. Nor is the storage fixed. But the only way to find out is to try and buy it, at which point I can just turn the first model into the second or something else entirely. Also, none of the presented options is anywhere close in price to the top spec model.

I thought apple was supposed to be good at UX?

Schiendelman3y ago

It says “configure yours on the next step.”

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cassianoleal3y ago

> Disk can have high transfer speeds but access time isn't at all comparable to ram.

I never said it was. I said _if_ it was, we wouldn't need RAM.

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