For some time now, criticism has intensified from those users who consider Apple’s choice to launch smartphones on the market to be senseless. premium computer with only 8GB of RAM. Last year, after the presentation of the MacBook Pro with M3, the Cupertino company tried to cool things down by explaining that on a Mac 8GB of RAM equivalent to 16GB of a Windows computer. The strategy has not changed, because the new MacBook Air M3 it starts with 8GB of RAM.
During a recent interview given to IT Home (via 9to5mac), Apple marketing manager Evan Buyze spoke out again in favor of Macs with 8GB of unified memory. Secondo Buyze, nei Mac entry-level 8GB of RAM is more than enough for most tasks performed by users who choose this configuration. He cited some examples, such as web browsing, playing multimedia content, not too intense editing of photos and videos and even gaming.
Kate Bergeron, Apple’s VP of hardware engineering, supported her colleague. She the latter praised Apple Silicon chips for their unified memory architecture, which allows Macs to deliver excellent performance.
The interview focuses on the MacBook Air M3 which recently arrived on the market, which – according to the reviews published online – manages to manage the aforementioned tasks very well. Even though the RAM is only 8GB. Therefore Buyze and Bergeron’s statements correspond to the reality of the facts.
So why the criticisms if the results are positive in terms of performance and energy efficiency? In truth, it is not difficult to guess what they are the reasons for these objections.
The first is that, putting the Air range aside, the MacBook Pro is by definition a notebook for professionals, and 8GB of RAM is not enough to best carry out operations of a certain load, such as heavy video editing. The second is obviously the prezzo: looking at the Europen market, the basic configuration of the MacBook Pro costs money 2.049 euro. A decidedly important figure for a premium laptop in whose list of technical specifications it is precisely the 8GB unified memory that is out of place.