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 “pro” software - but it’s just automation software and commonly used for tasks like sending a 20 character text string to another computer on the network when you hit a button… it can do more complex things but most of the time the cheapest Raspberry Pi has enough compute power (you can’t run it, or anything like it, on Linux however).
A MacBook Air would be useless, because it doesn’t have HDMI, and that often is needed. You don’t want to be messing with a USB-C to HDMI dongle when a thousand people paid hundreds of dollars each to watch a video that you’re playing.
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 “pro” software - but it’s just automation software and commonly used for tasks like sending a 20 character text string to another computer on the network when you hit a button… it can do more complex things but most of the time the cheapest Raspberry Pi has enough compute power (you can’t run it, or anything like it, on Linux however).
A MacBook Air would be useless, because it doesn’t have HDMI, and that often is needed. You don’t want to be messing with a USB-C to HDMI dongle when a thousand people paid hundreds of dollars each to watch a video that you’re playing.
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”.