• penguinA
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    75 hours ago

    12.9-inch display

    A18 Pro chip

    8GB RAM

    Fun color options

    Roughly $699 price

    Not a bad price. 8GB of RAM is pretty low these days

    • @osanna@lemmy.vgOP
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      4 hours ago

      yeah, i saw it was 8GB RAM, and thought, nah. Though admittedly, MacOS is pretty lite on resources. My current Macs are 8GB as they’re older, but they don’t really struggle. But I don’t do much except music and lemmy. So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.

      • penguinA
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        44 hours ago

        I guess it makes sense as a Chromebook alternative and they probably don’t want to eat their MacBook Air market. At least they’re getting colorful again

      • partial_accumen
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        34 hours ago

        So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.

        Don’t all those units have integrated graphics with unified memory? Meaning that 8GB of RAM is shared with the graphics frame buffer. So there’s less than 8GB available to the OS, right?