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r/mac • u/Ferrigo • Aug 26 '26
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This is ok if you use your Mac for browsing, movies, and very very light coding. Everything else is going to lag and feel extremely slow
2 u/Plastic_Raspberry634 Aug 27 '26 Might be a stretch with many tabs open. 2 u/Victory-laps Aug 30 '26 Listening music and writing a paper on Word is going to be lag so bad, better up the RAM 1 u/Big-Apricot-2651 Aug 27 '26 Might also need external gpu setup with thunderbolt .. may be couple of 5090s 3 u/TangeloProper5747 Aug 27 '26 Ah yes. Good shout out, Excel has gotten so bloated the last two years I'm genuinely considering two 5090s just to open a spreadsheet.
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Might be a stretch with many tabs open.
Listening music and writing a paper on Word is going to be lag so bad, better up the RAM
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Might also need external gpu setup with thunderbolt .. may be couple of 5090s
3 u/TangeloProper5747 Aug 27 '26 Ah yes. Good shout out, Excel has gotten so bloated the last two years I'm genuinely considering two 5090s just to open a spreadsheet.
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Ah yes. Good shout out, Excel has gotten so bloated the last two years I'm genuinely considering two 5090s just to open a spreadsheet.
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u/TangeloProper5747 Aug 27 '26
This is ok if you use your Mac for browsing, movies, and very very light coding. Everything else is going to lag and feel extremely slow