Try this. Find a photo on your phone that you love. Now squint, or zoom out until it's the size of a stamp. It's still the same photo. You can still tell what's in it. But something about it has gone a little flat — the part that made you take it in the first place has quietly walked out of the room. Most of us would describe what just happened with a shrug: "it's just smaller." But the truth is m
For years, the answer to "how much RAM do I need?" was always "more than you have." 4GB became a joke. 8GB became "the bare minimum." 16GB became the new baseline. 32GB started feeling reasonable for developers and gamers. The ceiling kept moving, and the industry was happy to sell you more every time it did. Now, Apple has released the MacBook Neo with 8GB as the base configuration. I've been wat
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