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Offline Barman

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New Laptop
« on: May 07, 2026, 09:11:23 AM »
Just ordered, MacBook Air 15", M5 chip & 24G RAM... cloud9:
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2026, 09:16:53 AM »
Quote from: Barman on May 07, 2026, 09:11:23 AM
Just ordered, MacBook Air 15", M5 chip & 24G RAM... cloud9:
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What's it replacing?
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2026, 09:34:31 AM »
Quote from: Steve on May 07, 2026, 09:16:53 AM
Quote from: Barman on May 07, 2026, 09:11:23 AM
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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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2026, 11:54:46 AM »
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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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2026, 12:51:12 PM »
Quote from: Steve on May 07, 2026, 11:54:46 AM
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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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2026, 05:16:41 PM »
Been using Macs since about 1990. So much better and more intuitive.

My first



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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2026, 05:56:18 PM »
Quote from: Nick on May 07, 2026, 05:16:41 PM
Been using Macs since about 1990. So much better and more intuitive.

My first



Different intuitive.  Windows is far far better for working with files and Office works much better on it.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2026, 06:00:49 PM »
Quote from: Barman on May 07, 2026, 12:51:12 PM
Quote from: Steve on May 07, 2026, 11:54:46 AM
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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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2026, 08:58:37 AM »
Quote from: Steve on May 07, 2026, 06:00:49 PM
Quote from: Barman on May 07, 2026, 12:51:12 PM
Quote from: Steve on May 07, 2026, 11:54:46 AM
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...





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