Comment by benterix
12 hours ago
> Nobody except people on HN cares about RAM.
They might not care but they do call us saying "Oh you are good with computers, why is my computer so slow?"
12 hours ago
> Nobody except people on HN cares about RAM.
They might not care but they do call us saying "Oh you are good with computers, why is my computer so slow?"
Tell them to buy a Mac and they'll never have to call for tech support again.
My spouse bought a mac and asks me (mostly a linux user, and I'm happy to help) for support somewhat regularly (mostly recently, for a tahoe upgrade). It's not the golden unicorn people paint it to be. 8gb is insane in 2026.
It may not be a golden unicorn, but I find it is quite a lot better than providing support for the Windows laptops they used to buy from random department stores on rock-bottom sales... Nothing quite like a $200 PC laptop stocked with OEM bloatware
Until 1/3 of your hard drive space is taken up by weird cache stuff that MacOS doesn’t explain nor offer a straightforward way to clean up.
If it's cache it gets automatically deleted. If it doesn't get automatically deleted it's not a cache and is a bug.
I like my MB Pro but it has serious audio and external display issues. I've had to remove spotlight indexing to prevent obscure OOM issues. One time I woke up to open my laptop and find it's screen cracked for no apparent reason. Since I couldn't prove it wasn't my fault I was charged for the repair anyway and I'm grateful to myself that I had AC+ because I might have as well just bought another laptop if not. At the end of the day, it's still just a computer.