The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: Barman on May 07, 2026, 09:11:23 AM
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Just ordered, MacBook Air 15", M5 chip & 24G RAM... cloud9:
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Just ordered, MacBook Air 15", M5 chip & 24G RAM... cloud9:
:thumbsup:
What's it replacing?
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Just ordered, MacBook Air 15", M5 chip & 24G RAM... cloud9:
:thumbsup:
What's it replacing?
iMac 24" M3 and possibly the MacBook Air 15" M3... Although I'll probably keep the Air...
Made the mistake on both of settling for 8Gb RAM which really isn't enogh...
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Phew! I thought you were a Wintel laptopper in which case I was going to commiserate for the months of frustration as Macs do things different. I used to get so wound up when my sis-in-law needed her Mac sorting.
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Phew! I thought you were a Wintel laptopper in which case I was going to commiserate for the months of frustration as Macs do things different. I used to get so wound up when my sis-in-law needed her Mac sorting.
mac took some getting used to after years of CP/M, DOS and Windows but the hardware is excellent... And the memory thing would probably not be such an issue if I didn't retain Chrome and have (counts) 15 tabs open at the same time...
but I do, so 8Gbytes of (unified) memory doesn't cut it...
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Been using Macs since about 1990. So much better and more intuitive.
My first
(https://i.postimg.cc/pyvQCvKg/IMG-2959.png) (https://postimg.cc/pyvQCvKg)
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Been using Macs since about 1990. So much better and more intuitive.
My first
(https://i.postimg.cc/pyvQCvKg/IMG-2959.png) (https://postimg.cc/pyvQCvKg)
Different intuitive. Windows is far far better for working with files and Office works much better on it.
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Phew! I thought you were a Wintel laptopper in which case I was going to commiserate for the months of frustration as Macs do things different. I used to get so wound up when my sis-in-law needed her Mac sorting.
mac took some getting used to after years of CP/M, DOS and Windows but the hardware is excellent... And the memory thing would probably not be such an issue if I didn't retain Chrome and have (counts) 15 tabs open at the same time...
but I do, so 8Gbytes of (unified) memory doesn't cut it...
Only 15?
Right now I have 4 Chrome Windows open
This one has 49 tabs open
One has just 2
The other two have 6 each
89% of 16G used but only 3G of that is Chrome
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Phew! I thought you were a Wintel laptopper in which case I was going to commiserate for the months of frustration as Macs do things different. I used to get so wound up when my sis-in-law needed her Mac sorting.
mac took some getting used to after years of CP/M, DOS and Windows but the hardware is excellent... And the memory thing would probably not be such an issue if I didn't retain Chrome and have (counts) 15 tabs open at the same time...
but I do, so 8Gbytes of (unified) memory doesn't cut it...
Only 15?
Right now I have 4 Chrome Windows open
This one has 49 tabs open
One has just 2
The other two have 6 each
89% of 16G used but only 3G of that is Chrome
16G would probably be fine... 8G takes the Mac into swapping and compression...
The 24G will be blinding...
(https://i.postimg.cc/hhpWzNZg/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-11-57-00-AM.png) (https://postimg.cc/hhpWzNZg)