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Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes, they do constantly. Yet, people still keep buying. I hate that I have to use Apple for my job because of the software and interface is exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I really like my macbook for dev work, and I think that now that macos is essentially a linux distro it's quite nice, but it's not that much better than the free distros and it's getting worse while they get better. Right now the only thing keeping me on a mac at work is that they gave it to me and the only thing keeping me on a mac at home is that it's already paid for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you wanna expand on why you think it's basically a linux distro? Last i heard macos was more closely based on BSD than it was linux, and this was ages ago. Unless they rewrote it without my knowledge it really shouldn't be anything like either one of the two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

because I can pop a terminal into zsh and beyond that I don't really know the taxonomy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you can do that with WSL though.

All modern terminals are actually terminal emulators, unless you're sitting in TTY. It's pretty trivial to implement a proper UNIX/linux like CLI environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

okay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

and for completion sake here, technically windows implements a "terminal" through CMD, it's not linux/unix like at all, but it is still a CLI interface, so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yup, same. I really don't like macOS, but that's what we've standardized on. I'm a Linux guy and use Linux at home for everything.