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		reaperducer on April 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'p... 1650EUR for a laptop that won't have enough ram to run the browser in two years. On what do you make that prediction? My 12-year-old MacBook Air runs Safari fine. I used it just this past weekend. I don't think an M2 is going to be unusable in 2025.

thenthenthen on April 4, 2023 [–]

Came here to post the same. My 2013 MBA 8gb runs vscode + 100 firefox tabs ‘just fine’. Compiling takes ages though compared to a modern affordable non-apple laptop. But here in Europa the alternatives aren’t as affordable either anymore.

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