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The first true MacBook Neo rivals are here, packing double the RAM and storage of Apple's budget laptop
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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.
LOL the vast majority of people don't even know what RAM is, or why its important...
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.