Base-model Macs won't be able to take advantage of Apple's flagship Xcode 16 feature: Predictive Code Completion.

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won’t be able to use it. There’s a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it’s the closest thing we’ll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn’t really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

  • Jtee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    And now all the fan boys and girls will go out and buy another MacBook. That’s planned obsolescence for ya

    • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Someone who is buying a MacBook with the minimum specs probably isn’t the same person that’s going to run out and buy another one to get one specific feature in Xcode. Not trying to defend Apple here, but if you were a developer who would care about this, you probably would have paid for the upgrade when you bought it in the first place (or couldn’t afford it then or now).

    • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      And the apple haters will keep making this exact same comment on every post using their 3rd laptop in ten years while I’m still using my 2014 MacBook daily with no issues.

      Be more original.

      • Jtee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Nice attempt to justify planned obsolescence. To think apple hasn’t done this time and time again, you’d have to be a fool

        • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
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          5 months ago

          👍

          -posted from my ten year old MacBook which shows no need for replacement

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            5 months ago

            At which point did Apple decide your MacBook was too old to be usable and stop giving updates or allow new software to run on it?

            • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
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              5 months ago

              Still gets security updates. All the software I need to run on it runs on it.

              My email, desktop, and calendar all still sync with my newer desktop. I can still play StarCraft. I can join zoom meetings while running Roll 20. I can even run Premiere and do video editing… to a point.

              I guess if you need the latest and greatest then you might have a point, but I don’t.

              This whole thread is bitching about software bloat and Apple does that to stop the software bloat on older machines, but noooo that’s planned obsolescence. 🙄