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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1933994" data-attributes="member: 190607">I think that this is a ludicrously negative view of the Macintosh now, and in the future.  I know that folks these days like to fabricate conspiracy theories, and I know that it is tempting to do so with regard to the Macintosh because new things relating to technology are scary, but really, it isn't warranted.The reason that Macs come with only 8GB of RAM as a minimum, is because extremely few users need more.  The Mac, over the years, has evolved to need less RAM, not more.  Apple has implemented very sophistocated memory management, and memory compression.  So you don't need more RAM than you used to, in fact, you probably need less.  See:Opinion: Is the base MacBook Air M1/8GB powerful enough for you?[URL unfurl="true"]https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/18/opinion-is-the-base-macbook-air-m1-8gb-powerful-enough-for-you/[/URL]8GB vs 16GB M1 MacBook Pro - How much RAM do you NEED?![MEDIA=youtube]PP1_4wek4nI[/MEDIA]Yes, you can purchase a new Mac with 512GB of storage space.  You can also purchase one with 1TB or 2TB of storage space.  Or, as always, you can attach an external hard drive to add as much storage as you need.  I don't know what you are complaining about here.It's true that you can't upgrade the RAM or storage that your Mac has *internally* once you have purchased it.  This doesn't mean that you are in trouble if you under-estimated how much of either that you need.  As noted above, 8GB of RAM is probably plenty for almost anything that you will be doing.  You can always add storage space externally.Apple didn't integrate RAM and storage on their SOC as some sort of nefarious scheme against you.  They did it so that they could eliminate bottlenecks in performance and thus give you blazing fast personal computers.  I think that, more than anything, that's what users want; more performance.  I also think that the minor tradeoffs for getting that performance are easily worth it.I don't know where you got this total BS that Apple is forcing you to use iCloud.  They aren't.  You can totally ignore iCloud if you want to.  Also, third party storage and backup software developers are doing just fine in the era of Apple Silicon.  I don't know what's going on with CCC, but SuperDuper! users are reporting that they are having little to no problems creating bootable backups.  External hard drives work fine with Apple Silicon-based Macs.Some few people have been saying that Apple is trying to make the Macintosh exactly like iOS for a long time now.  It seems to me that if that were the case that Apple would have done it by now.  But they haven't.  The Mac OS is entirely recognizable as a separate OS that, as far as the basics go, is pretty much just like it was 20 years ago.  It's true that Apple has been working to make iOS and the Mac OS work as seamlessly as possible together (because users want to be able to have their work easily transfer from their Mac to their iPad and back), and Apple has also wanted to rationalize BOTH OS's so that a user of one isn't entirely flummoxed by the other.  But this doesn't at all mean that Apple is turning the Mac OS into iOS.  The sky isn't falling.Some things are different with the latest Macs, it's true.  But, please, try not to lose your mind over it.   It's nothing that you can't deal with.  If you are the type that can't handle anything new or different in the latest personal computers, then maybe personal computers aren't for you.  Because if Apple stopped innovating, if they stopped improving, if they stopped moving forward...no one would buy their products anymore.  Consumers DEMAND that Apple move things forward.  It's up to you if you want to move forward with Apple and everyone else.</blockquote>

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