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Vote with your wallet. Well, those buying this kind of mac are basic users (non-pejorative), so it will continue to be there.
I love when back in the day people said that mastering the hardware and software would help to drive cost down, well their cost. :)
I don't have an Mac. How much RAM does it use just to turn it on? Windows 10 needs an astounding 4 GB just to see the desktop.
Windows doesn't use it all to load the desktop. It caches the rest so the files and software you use often loads faster. There's also the reserved RAM for the hardware...
At least 4GB, my previous employer was a young guy that was an Apple simp. He bought a bunch of Mac minis as desktop computers and they only had 4GB of RAM. They were the most garbage piece of shit computer I have ever had the displeasure of being forced to use. It really wasn't even usable, it would lock up just trying to open any web browser or even the file explorer (or whatever Apple calls it). It really amazes me how Apple continues to shit in their customers mouths, tell them it's chocolate ice cream and they believe them
Every os uses certain % of ram to preload services and applications. So that when you launch them they open faster. And when they aren't needed and you want to do ram intensive task, those unnecessary processes are killed.
Money is the bottleneck.
I have a 2015 Macbook for work reasons and I have no problem with it other than the battery being mostly kaput and that's replaceable if I feel like paying someone to do it. When Apple stops supporting it, I'll install Linux on it. When I finally have to buy another machine, I'll probably just get a $300 Chromebook because I have another computer to run the work software and this Mac is now just a glorified web browser. But I'm sure as fuck not buying a Macbook.
