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When are laptop manufacturers going to learn that me wanting 16GB of RAM does not automatically mean I want the most powerful i7 and 1 TB NVMe SSD... Just let me keep my i5 and 256GB, but give me my ram :( 

  1. Ashley MLP Fangirl

    Ashley MLP Fangirl

    yup. i upgraded my 2011 macbook pro to 16gb and it is so nice to have. i can just run VM's without having to close all my chrome tabs xD 

  2. tikker

    tikker

    Processing power is just fine, even on mobile i5s nowadays. It's just a little more memory I need.

  3. LukeSavenije

    LukeSavenije

    or just get a 2011 acer travelmate for free, put a mx500 on sata2 and 10 gigs of lying around ram in it and have a system that's doing everything exept gaming

  4. tikker

    tikker

    That laptop doesn't look half as bad as I was expecting lol. But seriously, there must be more people who'd gladly pay 100, maybe 200 more for double the RAM rather than like 600 because you have to choose the i7 and 512+ NVMe drive. (I get that's probably why they do it)

  5. Ashley MLP Fangirl

    Ashley MLP Fangirl

    @tikker modern i5's are WAY faster than the 2nd gen i7 in my MacBook... 

  6. tikker

    tikker

    IIRC mobile i7s nowadays are also just clocked higher right? No more 2c/4t vs 4c/4t stuff or such.

  7. LukeSavenije

    LukeSavenije

    2nd gen i7? i work on a 2nd gen 2330m...

  8. LukeSavenije

    LukeSavenije

    8th gen knows this difference

    i5: 6c/6t

    i7:6c/12t higher turbo

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  12. LukeSavenije

    LukeSavenije

    its actually not that bad... it can keep up with all the laptops at school and it's even faster than most of them because of the mx500

     

    they only use 4005u, 5005u or some pentiums at my school...

  13. LukeSavenije

    LukeSavenije

    but we're comparing in the same gen, remember that

  14. Ashley MLP Fangirl

    Ashley MLP Fangirl

    @LukeSavenije well i study ICT so most oif my classmates have big powerful gaming laptops. but my Mac keeps up pretty well. some only have liek 7th gen dual-core i5's and my Mac beats those. 

    https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-2675QM-vs-Intel-Core-i5-7200U/m597vsm153577

    look at multi-core. 

  15. LukeSavenije

    LukeSavenije

    yeah... the school i would have gone to wants a 4th gen+ i7 for the laptops to run vms and everything. i can imagine how many have a dual core around there. but i mean, i literally had to only pay for the ssd, a new battery and the laptop was given and the ram was laying around. it's old, but still works great. if I'm going to a it school, I'll probebly get a nicer laptop... but i still have my pc that's going to outperform about any laptop

  16. Ashley MLP Fangirl

    Ashley MLP Fangirl

    @LukeSavenije yeah my school says you need a modern i5 but like you super don't. they specify a modern i5 and 8gb of ram as the requirements. 

     

    for one assignment you need to run a Windows 10 VM and a Windows server 2016 VM at the same time while screen recording. the 8gb ram will be way more of a bottleneck than the i5. even a 2nd gen i7 like my laptop is can do the tasks fine. 

     

    it's so annoying because now we need to work on a VMware cloud environment that's slow AF and has loads of issues because the school did an oopsie by saying we only needed 8gb of ram. so most of the students can't do the assignments on their laptops and therefore need to use that cloud environment for the VM's. 

     

    that is extremely frustrating for me because i paid a nice amount of money for my MacBook because of the i7 and because i upgraded it top 16gb ram and it's going to waste. i almost never need the power that it has in school anymore. it was really nice to have for that one assignment where i had to run 2 VM's and screen record, but otherwise i don't need it anymore. 

     

    i mean don't get me wrong it's really nice to just have that power whenever i want to use it but it's annoying that i paid so much when i don't need it. 

  17. LukeSavenije

    LukeSavenije

    yeah... at least they did it right over there. they advice at least 16 gigs for it, and honnestly i fully agree. 8 gigs is minimum these days

  18. tikker

    tikker

    Holy hell, go to sleep and wake up to 18 notifications lol. Yeah 8 GB is fine for light weight productivity, but doing any stuff in parallel and it slows me down, especially with a VM running.

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