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Once you go to a Mac you never go back
Last year I purchased a Macbook Pro 13" 2020 model with M1 chip that came with 8 GB of unified memory and 250 gb SSD drive. I upgraded my older Macbook pro which had an Intel chip and about the same resources. I think it was a 2015 13" model. I went into Best Buy just to see what they had to offer. That was my first mistake.
Best Buy just happened to have the 2020 model with M1 chip on sale which brought the price down enough to catch my eye. I decided to grab it and wound up giving my other Macbook Pro with the Intel chip to my son who is in law school. My son was very happy to get the laptop and is using it today to get through his classes. Justin is graduating in May of this year. We are so proud of him and his hard work.
I use my laptop for web browsing, e-mail, Quicken and Adobe products such as Photoshop and Adobe professional so I can edit PDF files and sign them. You would think that 8 gb of unified memory would be enough. What is unified memory? Unified memory basically means that the Mac OS and the GPU (graphic processing unit) shares the 8 GB of memory. That means that when I run out of unified memory and I try to open one other app I get an out of resources message from the MAC OS.
At work we use a Dell Latitude or Inspiron laptops with Windows 10 and 16 gb of ram. I can open several applications and have as many…
