“Only 8GB ram in 2024” blah blah blah.
17% off a current MBA is a great deal, I pulled the trigger too early last week at $1609…
MacBook Air 13" M3 8CPU, 8GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB $1497 (RRP $1799) + Delivery ($0 in-Store/ C&C/ OnePass/ to Metro) @ Officeworks
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It's now the year 2035 Apple released their latest macbook air. Ram is now 12gb and ssd is 512gb
Meanwhile samsung phone.
4tb ssd
24gb ram
Mobile gpu with 2gb for gaming.
500 megapixel octa camera.
Mobile gpu with 2gb for gaming
Damn that really lets the phone down
Supposed to be.*20
Was gonna say.. that’s a seriously underpowered GPU given the other specs!
And the Samsung still underperforms.
my phone bought a year ago has 16GB RAM, 1TB Flash. So by 2035 you would have at least 64GB RAM, 6TB Flash for $400AUD Android phone, and 256GB RAM, 24TB SSD for a $1000 laptop. lets see. Even today you can have 64GB RAM 6TB Storage for $1000 laptop easy.
Smartphone manufacturers are running out of ideas, so really all they can do is make them faster, increase the RAM, better camera, etc.
This year has been all about supporting AI and flip/foldable phones.
It's 2024 not 2004 😂
2004 I had 512mb and it was overkill.
Wow! Price is getting really good.
Paid $1,612 with 16GB RAM grade back in March, but that was education pricing ($1,949), minus 5% discounted gift card, minus $240 bonus gift card (later used to buy an iPad).
Now $1,497 without any mucking about.
Where and how to get education discount on mac pro m3
Secret ozbargain chat /s
It’s not so secret. Anyone can purchase a premium ozbargain membership to view the ‘secret’ chats.
You're not getting those three "blahs" with 8GB of memory. Maybe two before it writes to the SSD.
Only 8GB ram in 2024
This works :)
worked! thanks
How much for 16gb model?
Don't you have the internet yet? Oh wait… ;)
I am going to soon take delivery of the 128GB M3 Max as i was told 8gb was completely unusable
I don’t mind the 8gb, but I wish the Mac has a touch screen. After using surface pro I keep touching the screen when I don’t want have a mouse in bed lol
Wait until Apple kills the iPad line…. Don't hold your breath.
If you think 8GB of RAM is bad enough, then don't forget it's also 256GB storage for a laptop in 2024.
But it is a bargain price of $1497
lol
You're about four MacBook deals too late.
I'd say it's a crime for your $1500 Just to have eight gig RAM and 256 gig storage in2024
Is 8gb enough for my extreme porn addition?
I believe you made a typo typing one handed, you meant addiction….
I bought M2 two days ago for $1410 from Officerworks. Is there any chance I can return that (opened already) that and get this by paying the difference? :-(
Less than 0
U can try change of mind. Try to pack everything nicely and visit a rich suburb Officeworks. Good luck
Change of Mind Returns – 30 Days
If you have changed your mind about your purchase, Officeworks will be pleased to offer you a refund or exchange in-store only, provided that:• You return the item within 30 days of purchase
• You produce a satisfactory proof of purchase (being your original register receipt or online proof of purchase, such as a tax invoice)
• The item is in re-saleable condition, including its original packaging (if any), is unused and as sold
Use an M1 Air with 8gb for live streaming with an overlay over video, projecting information to a display, air playing to another and recording multichannel audio. Works perfectly fine.
Personally use an M2 Air with 8gb. I do lots of shit on mine. I can't imagine most people have needs beyond what I (a nerd) do.
Have you tried to open Excel with 8GB of RAM? It's brutal, mate
Based on cooni and your comment! I can see the problem is with MS Excel!
MS need to optimise their app better
Thanks!
Bought from Apple 2 days ago, opened it but only downloaded Office365
Chances of price beating at JB/Harvey Norman and return the sealed one from here?
I heard I can return the opened one to Apple but is that for certain?You can easily return your opened one to Apple as long as it's within 14 days - If you ordered online you don't even need to talk to anyone can do it all on the website and post it.
I think they scan the serial number and it might be on your receipt, so don’t think you can swap return. Apple has a 14 day change of mind return from memory, even if opened
im wondering if they come with 4gb of ram, because thats more than anyone will need
my phone bought a year ago has 16GB RAM, 1TB Flash. So by 2035 you would have at least 64GB RAM, 6TB Flash for $400AUD Android phone, and 256GB RAM, 24TB SSD for a $1000 laptop. lets see. Even today you can have 64GB RAM 6TB Storage for $1000 laptop easy.
So few RAM, what will the sheep do now? 😊
I have no problem with the combination of 8GB and 2024 but the combination of 8GB, 2024 and $1799. Make it $599 like a fancy Chromebook and nobody will complain.
If you use your 8gb of ram Mac in a RAM 4x4 does it have more RAM?
Hope Apple never increases the RAM, otherwise these posts will have no/low comments
My kid starting year 7 next year, and their school uses IOS.
M4 not due until April 2025, should I buy this now ready for them? Think it will be cheaper towards end of year?!Can i price match with apple store $1497 and then pay more for memory upgrade ram 8G to 16G?
No. apple store max 10% off
Damn.. is there any M3 16/256 or M2 16/256 nice deals?
isnt the student or edu store a better discount. someone always posts the link
$1649 there
no there was a link that always showed a cheaper price than those two, i cant remember where i saw it, i think i book marked it but its lost now, it wasnt edu or student it was something else
only edu and AOC, nothing else
AOC is $1,582.90
@snvl: you are correct i found it, its 1582 so its 85 more, but the thing is you could have gotten that laptop on day one for 85 more, its a saving of 85 dollars..
@Roe Jogan: Day one was cheaper with edu + 249 gift card.
OW cheaper today with price match.
Some people didn’t need a laptop on day one but need one today
me with my 2012 mbp with 4gb of ram doing just fine
I have a relative using a 4th-generation i5 laptop with 4GB RAM. It is working fine for basic use, though, the offer to upgrade it is there when it becomes needed.
safari works decent, just some websites are starting to not load properly i think because it cant be updated anymore
Perfect use case for Linux. Something like Linux Mint may suit them and run fine on that hardware.
Without a doubt, however, Windows 10 still working fine for them.
Is the RAM non upgradable?
Can't upgrade RAM. For every Apple Silicon CPU, the RAM is integrated into the CPU die itself. Basically, TSMC manufactured the CPU and the RAM together into one single package.
I've got to say, picked up a used 8gb M1 Air that was too cheap to say no to on Facebook Marketplace recently and it feels like it performs better than an old work M1 with 16gb did in 2020…was pretty surprised.
Is this cheap?
https://hub.triforce.com.au/product/cto-macbook-pro-16-with-…Seems like a great deal? price error?
Anyone experience with Hub by Triforce? The deal seems too good to be true
9th gen Intel i9 based Macbook Pro. Intel CPU based Macbook Pros are less appealing to general public.
It's because it's Intel, discontinued late 2021 - Would be better off with an M-series in almost all cases unless you specifically need an Intel CPU.
Who would price beat?
How long will this price be maintained?
The base price isn't the issue, it's the cost to get the 16GB version. Mental.
Considering my 10 year old laptop has 32GB RAM and cost me $800 10 years ago, it's a bit steep.
just open the machine and desolder the little chips , put in 64GB RAM and 2TB NVME would only cost 20% apple asking for.
Only works for SSD, RAM is embedded into Apple Silicon CPU now.
oh, then it is on the way to be a new iphone totally locked down and you are going to pay heaps every other year to get a new model
Only 8GB ram in 2024 but got 100+ votes more votes than at least 90% of laptop deals on here.
Apple is popular.
User satisfaction with the base models is also good. Every MBA deal has satisfied users.
There are a handful of users who drank too much kool-aid and bought an underspecced machine. That is easy to avoid by working out what you'll be running before purchasing such a device.
To those considering this deal and worried about “only 8GB RAM”, there are a lot of pitchfork brigades folk here who don’t understand memory management. Unless you’re doing serious work with this, I’ll be nimble and won’t sweat at doing anything you want it to do.
Memory management is pretty complex, moreso with macOS due to Apple Silicon sharing RAM with the GPU. Also the operating system will try to use as much RAM as is available since unused RAM is useless.
Here’s an easy to read article about just this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/865066/its-okay-to-buy-a-mac-with-…Apple’s M1-3 are really pretty amazing architectures. And the macOS itself is pretty memory efficient.
I have a M1 MBP with 32GB RAM but I got it because I’m often running Parallels with Windows 11 inside, that’s running electronics CAD software (which is hungry as hell for RAM, on my desktop Windows machine, it uses over 32GB of my 64), and it’s 3D so it uses more RAM for GPU. It is going really well. My battery lasts ages, it’s kinda crazy.
It can be considered 10% more efficient than windows, and is on par with linux.
Testing shows 16GB RAM gives a huge boost to the whole system's performance even on mac and 8GB gives this a huge pain and draw back."Memory magic" is apple's marketing lie, it gives 10% max to what the system have.
No you can't make 8GB ram work like 16GB ram.
This is why tech shops still sells dual core laptops for $900 in 2024, people just think new is good, is better than old ones. No it doesn't, 10 years old system is faster than those $900 dual core ewaste.
When the machine and the SSD are fast enough, it may replace the extra ram in general usage, from what I see.
Can you please point me to this testing and where the 10% figure comes from? Interested to see.
You're not wrong on old being better (I assume you mean in terms of being more efficient in hardware utilisation). Just look at what they did with Amings and C64s, or early PCs with 640KB + extended memory. And demos people write (3D videos with music) in just 4KB file size (or less). If you write efficient, unbloated software, you can get by just fine with lower amounts of RAM. Go back to running Windows 7 or a Linux distro from 5 years ago. There's something about software that bloats over time, requiring ever more hardware resources. A recent article in my IEEE magazine had a cover story on bloat in modern software, I haven't really had time to read it yet though.
The Linux kernel is fairly efficient and small (used to be much moreso). All the UI and application stuff in userland is what eats up RAM. What's to say that macOS (Darwin + Cocoa, etc) are not also a lot more efficient in terms of RAM use, when compared to vanilla Windows 11? It's hard to compare, though.
When a Apple Silicon Mac runs out of memory, it can be quite painful to use. My work M1 Pro only has 16GB RAM and it used swap (from SSD) way too often that the SSD's TBW is quite high (which isn't good). New devs get M3 Pro with 36GB RAM now.
The other issue with Apple products is the upgrades are expensive. Apple is milking customers on these upgrades. For all the people I know who bought Apple Silicon Mac products, they ALL upgraded, rather than taking a base model.
Also, it is common for us tech savvy people to think most people are fine with 8GB RAM. However, the reality is that a lot of them actually need more SSD space and they don't close browser tabs and leave apps running a lot. With Apple pushing AI, 8GB RAM doesn't feel good.
Assume it was a laptop?
For desktop or laptop primarily on the desk, might consider booting to a good external SSD in Thunderbolt case, likely won't notice performance difference. I have not tried this, don't even have any ARM Mac to try, but might be a workable solution for someone with a vanilla Mac and only need to do occasional heavy tasks. All swap read/write on the external SSD, no harm done to internal drive.
Edit: I don't care about AI, hope many others also the same. Happy to have that "feature" disabled due to lack of RAM.
Get OnePass, link to Flybuy, price beat via phone bringing it down to $1410.75, includes your Flybuy number when order and pickup from store maybe can get further 2.5% off?
Not a good deal if all you need is a new working computer but not bad if you want a new Mac.
Price beat against whom?
Probably the hub by triforce
But only midnight colour can price match?
@Partypants: I believe so. Officeworks seems to have midnight all over QLD, shouldn't be a problem if you are here.
@Partypants: I just managed to price beat the M3 16/512 over the phone - so might still have some stock available if you want to give it a try.
17% off a current MBA is a great deal, I pulled the trigger too early last week at $1609…
@phwahh Check to see if you have price protection on your credit card,
Yeah but i don't have officeworks gift card (at least 10%) atm 😭
Don’t need new laptop until March next year. Is this good enough a deal to buy now or wait until Black Friday/Boxing day sale?
@snvl: While I can appreciate this, what upgrade are you really receiving if you upgrade every 2 years with a base MBA for arguments sake. The difference between m1 and M3 wouldn't feel like an upgrade worth purchasing… And that's normally the positive with Mac.. if you buy a Mac it lasts a long time.
It's why I think it's criminal for them to include 8gb as base it hasn't changed for 10 years.
16gb model would feel relevant for a longer while.