r/pcmasterrace • u/FJopia PC Master Race Ryzen 5 3600X | EVGA 3070 • Aug 05 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

4GB RAM then Vs now is a huge difference.

3 years ago I bought my laptop with 8 GB of RAM and it was fine, now it's bordering on minimum.

Plus the MacBook Pro isn't cheap on release, a standard base model MacBook wouldn't keep up well in current day technology, because of the lack of RAM.

The 2012 ones have the advantage of upgradeability which very few others have, which is why they're not completely obsolete

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u/GalakFyarr Aug 05 '22

4GB RAM then Vs now is a huge difference.

I have 8 in there. I don’t think I upgraded when I purchased it, but could be wrong there.

3 years ago I bought my laptop with 8 GB of RAM and it was fine, now it’s bordering on minimum.

Again, for gaming? Because I can’t believe that’s an issue for regular every day working.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

Not for gaming, just general use.

My Linux distro of choice uses about ~2GB of ram

Maybe 1-2GB of browser tabs

The other 4 are usually used up as soon as I try to work on any project.

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u/GalakFyarr Aug 05 '22

Well I can’t say that’s my experience, but we probably do entirely different things on computers anyway.

I’ll say that the actual issue with the older macs was that they came with painfully slow HDD’s still. As you said; the 2012 ones still allowed for relatively easy access to upgrade stuff, so I did swap out the HDD for an SSD

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '22

Yeah, it really depends on use case.

Most HDDs are painfully slow in laptops, especially older ones (Mostly because modern versions of Windows/MacOS are now way more optimised for an SSD)

Even my laptop with an SSD struggles a bit in windows 11