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Comment Re: Doesn't like military using their services (Score 1) 299

Second, you equate Palestinians with Hamas. I am not sure why but out of kindness I will assume that it is because you are ignorant rather than malicious.

He's both ignorant and malicious. He still keeps saying it's anti-semitic to hold Israel responsible for the Holocaust* it's perpetrating against the Palestinians, when they are literally more semitic than the Israelis, which Israel attempts to prevent its citizens from finding out from their end.

* An old English word not even used by most speakers of Hebrew

Comment Re:8GB is only to claim lower starting price... (Score 2) 402

that also comes with the caveat that swapping on SSDs is a stone cold cycle killer.

And also a stone cold SSD killer.

Apple needs to figure out how to let macs do modular ram.

They can't get this kind of performance (for those short-running tasks that actually perform well on an inadequately cooled system anyway) with modular RAM. It would also take some of the profit out of the machine, or they would have to charge an even more ridiculous price in order to maintain their enormous margins.

Comment Re:8 GB isn't enough for me to use more ... (Score 0) 402

There are some good arguments about why 8 GB might not be enough for some people, but 'when I choose to download an additional browser that is known to be inefficient, and when I then use it in a way that consumes as much memory as possible, I run out of memory' really isn't one of them.
There really are people out there who are perfectly happy browsing away in Safari on their 8 GB Airs.

You do realize that Safari is basically just an inferior version of the same browser, right? If Safari ever gets updated enough to be as good as Chrome, it will use just as many resources. Using less resources only makes it slower, it doesn't make it better, unless your criteria is "better on a machine with an inadequate amount of RAM". For what Apple is charging, 16GB ought to be the absolute minimum.

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