Enough to use iMessage, Mail, FaceTime etc. What else do you need in a so affordably priced $1600 Mac? Do you want Apple to go bankrupt? Or you’d want people to not be able to buy an “8GB base MacBook Pro”[1]. Oh, that would be unreasonable.
[1] Yes, I swear it was a comment on another post from yesterday. HN is either that disconnected or desensitised when it comes to this company.
As for why they do/did it? Because they can. There’s really no other reasoning here. Yes, the first part of my comment is rather snarky/sarcastic and maybe in poor taste but this is just pathetic and tomorrow I’d love to see the comments explaining how it makes sense and that maybe it is actually a price drop.
[1] Yes, I swear it was a comment on another post from yesterday. HN is either that disconnected or desensitised when it comes to this company.
As for why they do/did it? Because they can. There’s really no other reasoning here. Yes, the first part of my comment is rather snarky/sarcastic and maybe in poor taste but this is just pathetic and tomorrow I’d love to see the comments explaining how it makes sense and that maybe it is actually a price drop.
And this post is from 2.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27096022 (about 8GB RAM, yes)