Apple's MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever
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Apple still sells expensive "Pro" computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

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.

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2511·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      11 months ago

      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?

      • teuast@lemmy.caEnglish
        144·
        11 months ago

        They’ve put a lot of work into locking people into an ecosystem. To pick one example, if you’ve got a Logic project you want someone to be able to edit, even if you manage to migrate it with all of the required stuff, they’re still going to need a Mac to open it.

        • umbrellaEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          free yourself, learn to use multiplatform software and never look back.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Could you name a couple? I’m not aware of any industry standard applications that are exclusive to macos. Or is this some custom designed stuff?

      • dlpkl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

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

        • fernandofig@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          11 months 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.

      • notenoughbutterEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        apple is slowly switching away from x86 platform

        last time I read, you couldn’t hackintosh on an arm chip