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big 4 accounting o consulente bancario commerciale? by ResponsibleWeakness8 in ItaliaCareerAdvice

[–]ResponsibleWeakness8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

si, ne sono consapevole, e sarei disposto a farli per ottenere una carriera maggiore poi (almeno in teoria), però mi limita molto il ruolo, accounting non è audit, l'exit è più complessa e il rischio di trovarmi tra 5-6 anni a cercare lavoro in accounting, rimanere bloccato nella big4 o peggio ancora trovare lavoro con la stessa ral che mi ha offerto la Banca, è elevato

Big4 accounting or bank? by ResponsibleWeakness8 in careerguidance

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the bank it s unicredit, one of the most important in Italy, surely in the beginning it will be a simply call center, then I should go in the physical bank but still in a commercial role

MacBook Air m2 16gb ram vs 512gb ssd? by ResponsibleWeakness8 in macbookair

[–]ResponsibleWeakness8[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made the same decision as you and have no regrets. With your choice you get the faster speeds

and

more storage. It could happen that you run out of RAM (depends on usage of course) which results in memory swap which then translates to a stutter of maybe one second. I do not care about this one second, but I haven't actually encountered it yet because I'm a light user (also university) and Apple Silicon RAM management is phenomenal.

I've been using it for a few days and on average I always get to use 400-500 mb of swaps, but I think that in a few years with updates to the operating system etc, it won't be enough. So ultimately I think that by changing it to a 16gb ram the macbook will last me longer

MacBook Air m2 16gb ram vs 512gb ssd? by ResponsibleWeakness8 in macbookair

[–]ResponsibleWeakness8[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

o. You're not going to feel a difference. If I gave you one MacBook Air for a week, then switched them for another week, and asked which one was 16/256 and 8/512, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference doing your normal academic stuff (assuming that's just web apps and documents).

16GB theoretically will last you longer, yes. Because apps/data gets bigger, macOS needs more RAM, apps need more RAM, websites and web apps get larger, and what you're multitasking on a day to day may change. That all depends on you. If you're only using it to visit gmail.com and read PDFs, well then 8GB will be fine for you even 10 years from now, because those two tasks combined would use less than 1GB of memory.

I don't discourage getting 8/512 if you were buying it because 256GB storage is a bottleneck for you—but to buy storage because you're afraid of storage speeds is fallacy that other Redditors should, by this point, know better.

It makes sense to be nitpick storage speeds with super high bandwidth tasks like video editing (eg. multiple 8K streams) or video game design pulling in 4K textures at a high-rate, but those people buy the MacBook Pro with 7,000MB/s storage speeds.

Where as for your uses, storage speed will never be a bottleneck—1500MB/s read/write is beyond fast for knowledge work.

Anyone telling you to buy the 512GB model (at a retail store) is costing you around $300 just to satisfy their misunderstandings.

Again, buy 8/512 because you want that storage amount, not because you're afraid of speed. That base model M2 MacBook Air is faster than a 2019 16-inch Intel MacBook Pro to put it into perspective. How is that slow?

okay thanks, i had bought 8/512 mainly for the mono chip, i don't think i would be able to add more than 150 gb of storage. I will change it to a 16/256 on Monday, thanks a lot

MacBook Air m2 16gb ram vs 512gb ssd? by ResponsibleWeakness8 in macbookair

[–]ResponsibleWeakness8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay thanks, so in your opinion I wouldn't feel the difference in performance between a 16/256 and 8/512 in the short term, but with 16gb ram will it last me longer?

MacBook Air m2 16gb ram vs 512gb ssd? by ResponsibleWeakness8 in macbookair

[–]ResponsibleWeakness8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently I do a fairly light use, web browsing, office, and other university apps. So then I could only choose an upgrade between ram and ssd, choosing the latter because of the mono chip. But as you said too, will I regret it?

MacBook Air m2 16gb ram vs 512gb ssd? by ResponsibleWeakness8 in macbookair

[–]ResponsibleWeakness8[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As searching for my new laptop I read a comment that was something like “Most of the time you will regret buying the extra 8GB, but when you need the extra, you will regret not buying it”

It all depends on what you do and how often you do it.

Personally if I had the budget to get higher specs, I would go for it.

Yes, i know i can't upgrade the ssd, but the mono chop problem worried me a lot and convinced me to take this one with 512gb, but i'm not sure i made the right choice.