Well well well. Well well well well well. Look who's decided to leave behind the 2010s and make computers with a reasonable amount of memory for modern-day tasks. Apple's been on a tear of announcing new Mac hardware this week, including a new teensy Mac Mini, but the biggest news, to me, is that the company renowned for selling very expensive laptops is now putting more than 8GB of RAM in them across-the-board. No more paying an extortionate $200 to upgrade to a reasonable 16GB!
Despite making generally fantastic laptops, there's almost always something Apple will charge an eye-watering upgrade fee for, and for years that's been an adequate amount of RAM. This criticism has been around for years, but it wasn't until late 2023 that someone got an Apple VP, Bob Borchers, to address it.
