A laptop starting at almost 3 grand with only 24gb ram is a tragedy, the RAMpocalypse is brutal.
Basically $400 premium for a screen upgrade. I'm sure the screen is brilliant but mini LED is very much not bad. It's a real bummer that we seem to be entering an era where each year with tech it leans more towards a new product offering that is more but for more money versus getting more for our dollar consistently.
OLED feels pretty established at this point... could they really not have pulled off just making that the default screen on pro's or is this just a price gouge for a premium feature.
These are considerably lighter as well. 3.5lb -> 3lb and 4.7lb -> 4lb are a meaningful difference. That's worth $$ too
Any person or business actually needing 24gb of RAM in a Mac is doing cutting edge computing work and is making 3 grand of revenue at least per day.
Da Vinci Resolve recommends 16GB for video editing and 32GB if you're doing Fusion compositions. Basic video stuff.
Blender definitely benefits from more RAM. The M-series Macs are good for doing renders. If you're a hobbyist or independent creator, you're more likely to be rendering on your laptop than having a fancy render farm. (That's exactly how the movie Flow was done.)
Musicians know software instruments can eat into RAM, and streaming things like sample-based instruments off of disc is non viable for real time audio. Real world use can have very large numbers of tracks with many software instruments and VST chains. Ableton is a minimum of 8GB for the DAW, and things like Kontakt will multiply that fast.
And people usually have Chrome, chat apps and other things open while they work.
God, I wish. My 16gb Mac swapped constantly doing Docker rebuilds, and I was just an SRE muppet making well under $300/day.
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