

youtube, ms word, emails, netflix, 1 game that runs with Rosetta, a few messaging apps, and web-surfing
MACBOOK PRO 2018 8GB VS 16GB RAM PROFESSIONAL
photoshop, editing, coding, or any sort of professional or expert tasks even as a hobby I brought the 8GB RAM Macbook Air home and started using it for about 3 days, monitoring the Memory usage under Activity Monitor.īy the way, I am NOT an expert on computers, nor do I do any of the following. There are many more to be added to the above list, but I will try to minimize the comparisons. 256GB should be enough as you can suffice with external hard drive 8GPU is unnecessary and is undetectable 8GB should be enough for MOST users with light use The 8GB performs like a 16GB on Intel-based laptops I initially purchased 512GB 8GPU 8GB RAM at the Apple Store, after reading and watching TOO MANY Youtube and Reddit posts about the comparison.

I also researched a lot on 8GB vs 16GB RAM for so many days before I made my purchase. So I highly recommend the sandisk extreme and they are damn cheap now. Thankfully it was a perfect clone and I recloned my new logic board from it. I hadn't even verified it because this was just a keyboard repair. Logic board without notice and guess what I had cloned my drive to? Yep a new sandisk external. But honestly if I had a base unit and the external ssd I would have ditched the laptop immediately and gotten a 2018. So at year 4 of this laptop finally everything is working. Now at year 4 they went to replace the keyboard which meant bee battery and they did the logic board all free. It wasn't worth that and I realized if I bought a cheaper unit and external storage I could have just traded it in or thrown it away. He basically said I had to send it in and if they charged me $800 to repair whatever (logic board etc) they would do so without asking. The genius told me he thought I had a fake battery as they don't go bad at 55. I got a custom order 2016 with 1tb and loaded.

