Thoughts on "in defense of RAM on Apple Silicon"
Jason Koebler wrote a very good article titled In Defense of RAM on Apple Silicon.
"It is outrageous that Tim Cook is still selling 8GB of RAM as the default on a
$1,600 device. It is very similar to when Apple was selling the iPhone 6S with
16GB of storage as its base device, and people were talking themselves into
buying it. It is not just a performance and usability problem, it’s a
sustainability and environmental one, too. This is because RAM, historically one
of the easiest components to upgrade in order to get more life out of your
computer, on MacBook Pros cannot be upgraded and thus when 8GB inevitably
becomes not enough, users have to buy a new computer rather than simply upgrade
the part of the computer that’s limiting them."
I agree with the above, which is the last paragraph of the article: at a time where we know the "cost" for Mother Nature of manufacturing a laptop or a smartphone, I find it insane that companies (not only Apple) choose to ship a laptop that won't be usable after a few months.
For a few years, I am keeping my electronic devices for a longer period of time:
- either until they're really unsuable (e.g. my 5 years old iPhone 8 which I recently upgraded to an iPhone 13 Mini, which I'm planning to use for the same amount of time),
- or by "recycling" old laptops of mine, giving them to my wife or kids, where they live a second life
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