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by Macha 1482 days ago
Are you telling me the 13", 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage base MBP is a professional machine? The Macbook Air's target market seems to me to be "I want a Mac, the cheapest Mac because I want to save money, but I'm also willing to pay double what a non-Mac laptop would be" with a secondary market of "I don't care about money, performance or longevity, I just want the lightest mac".

Personally I wouldn't recommend any Mac for the average consumer. If they just need "a computer", there's a number of perfectly servicable Windows machines for €600, while the Macbook Air starts at €1149, and if they want to play video games the Mac isn't really a candidate due to worse software support amongst games than Windows or even Linux at this point. Those are the two most common asks for advice for a computer I get.

If you need a Mac for professional creative use, or want a *nix system for development use, you already know what you want/need, and you're unlikely to be asking me.
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throwaway290 1482 days ago
I'm not asking you indeed. My point is that 8 GB RAM is not a professional machine and is incorrectly labeled. You seem to be restating this point.

MBP is supposed to be professional, but I can't imagine using a 8 GB machine. Even on 16 GB M1 RAM is the bottleneck and I get OOM errors.

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Macha 1482 days ago
Oh yeah, like my original stance was that basically the 8GB MBP exists to have a cheaper entry price, and to have something that's a no brainer upgrade to make users actually looking for a professional machine buy the next one up.
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throwaway290 1482 days ago
The op was "why does MBA have the same as MBP", your response was "consumer does not need more RAM than MBA has". My point is that MBP is not positioned for consumer, because if it is, then whom is MBA positioned for. What's your objection I still can't grasp.
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tragictrash 1482 days ago
This is literally their marketing strategy. The same thing applies to popcorn sizes at the movie theaters. I can't remember what it's called or find a reference to the strategy, hopefully someone smarter than I can provide it.
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