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Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever (www.macworld.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever::Apple still sells expensive "Pro" computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wish I could. I hate working on Macs, but it seems like half of my mission-critical programs at work are Mac exclusive for some reason. Apple really pushed the “we’re built for art and artists” thing, so there are a lot of programs in the fine arts world that are Mac exclusive. Digital art, music, live entertainment, etc are all wholly dependent on Macs, purely because the programs needed to make those things are Mac exclusive.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait what? I've been using windows exclusively for art and music. Not specifically for live music and nothing stops me from that. What are these exclusive Mac apps that can't be replaced with something else?

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Look up what a "hackintosh" is. You're welcome.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesn't work for newer MacOS versions since they've gone to ARM.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    What? Macos Sonoma is compatible with MacBooks from 2017. Hackintoshes are absolutely still possible on Intel, and from a cursory googling it appears they're out there. Apple will eventually cut off support for Intel Macs on some future (major) release, sure, but there's probably a few more years until that happens.

    With that said, hackintoshes are a suboptimal solution to OPs problem. Ideally they should really move to other applications properly supported on multiple platforms.

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