• Centillionaire
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    478 months ago

    It’s the year 2033, Apple releases the M11 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM.

    • astraeus
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      258 months ago

      We removed the headphone jack for your benefit.

      We kept the lightning cable for your benefit.

      We didn’t increase the base model’s memory for your benefit.

    • @rwhitisissle@beehaw.org
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      218 months ago

      Apple enthusiasts claim it’s literally double the amount of RAM they need for their workload. They proceed to watch Netflix in a google chrome window where it’s the only tab open on their 2500 dollar computer.

      • interolivary
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        158 months ago

        Heh, an optimist here assuming Chrome will work with 8Gb RAM in 2033

        • @abhibeckert@beehaw.org
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          28 months ago

          It does. I have 16GB on my Mac, and half of it is given over to a virtual machine running Linux.

          Chrome (and 20 or so other things) runs fine on the remaining 8GB.

          • interolivary
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            128 months ago

            Interesting. How are things in the year 2033? Could you tell us about the technology you’re using to communicate with us?

            • @rwhitisissle@beehaw.org
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              88 months ago

              That’s probably what the VM is doing: it’s self-hosting a server running timemachined. timemachined itself is actually running out of a docker container that’s running on the VM, but that’s because by 2033 every single update, which occur daily, breaks the existing docker installation on a Mac. Which is honestly very similar to what happens in 2023, except it’s every other day currently.