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I think it's even more amazing that Apple can get away with charging $1,300 in 2021 for a desktop with only 8GB RAM.

The desktop I built in 2013 had 32GB RAM and that entire thing cost me $500 or $600.

You'll needs a fat profit margin to maintain a two trillion dollar company. They're mostly a hardware company after all.

Memory on the m1 doesn't behave like it does on x86. My 16 GB intel macbook feels like a boat and sounds like a airplane taking off at load. My 8GB mini feels fast and is silent.

What do you mean for "behave", there are a lot of usecases that require more than 8GB memory (expecially for developers) and there is no CPU magic that will help you with that.

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