• Krafty Kactus@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    I can guarantee MacOS will not run on that computer

    Edit: I was not aware that ARM macOS worked on Intel chips

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      8 months ago

      You could get it to run without a problem, but I don’t understand why they would portray macOS as having heavier requirements than windows. Of the two, macOS is an order of magnitude cheaper to run than Windows.

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        8 months ago

        Yah, like, there is plenty of negative things to say about Apple, but they’re actually pretty good about keeping their stuff efficient.

        Like, there is a reason they could get away with 4GBs of ram in the Mac book air as late as 2016.

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            8 months ago

            I have an old MacBook (2012) that runs macOS 10.13 (High Sierra, released in 2017) on 4GB RAM. I use it a couple times a year if I need to compile something for Mac x86 and don’t want to spend time setting up cross-compiling from my newer (M1) machine.

            That MacBook is literally 13 years old, and the only upgrade I’ve given it is a new SSD back around 2018. It runs just fine.

            Rip on the walled garden all you like, but if you want an OS with the stability and simplicity of a commercial OS, together with unix compatibility and a shell that lets you do whatever you want… macOS is your best bet. Using it literally feels like using a commercially polished and widely supported version of Linux.