• Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    You act like there isn’t this absolutely overwhelming market of people currently doing their computing on an iPad, maybe with a keyboard folio. For them, a real laptop with 8GB of ram is a really good upgrade.

    Those people are doing everything in a web browser, and they are pretty good at unloading tabs when unused, so they don’t run out of ram. The people just get used to having to wait for a page to reload when they switch tabs. That’s just the “Chromebook” experience.

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      3 days ago

      they are pretty good at unloading tabs when unused

      LOL the vast majority of people don’t even know what RAM is, or why its important…

      The people just get used to having to wait for a page to reload when they switch tabs. That’s just the “Chromebook” experience.

      Yeah, that’s what you call a bad experience. Which is fine when you’re buying a $200 laptop, not $600 or $1k for an iPad. People just don’t know they’re having a bad experience or don’t understand why.