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New MacBook Pro limited to 16GB of RAM, to save battery life
- informatimago 10y agoMy laptop is used 99% of the time on power supply. The one at work is used 90% of the time on power supply (and then, only because I'm lazy bringing the power supply in meeting room). Apple is telling us: don't buy MacBook for your desk computing. Buy iMac for desk, and for the one hour or two a week you need a laptop, add a MacBook Pro too. Apple is telling us it very please would earn three times more money. Being the biggest corporation is not enough for it, it just wants more.
- nicolas_t 10y agoThey would be telling us that if they actually released decent desktops. But the imac and the mac pro are outdated...
- gc9 10y ago1. What widespread laptop applications need 20+ GB of random access memory? With the low latency of PCIe storage, virtual memory could cover the non-random access cases like editing UHD or DCI-4K videos, or data mining large datasets. 2. Apple might be looking forward to future generation processors, which might add on-package memory with lower power and faster bandwidth. If that on-package memory is limited to 16GB, then Apple could be preparing its software ecosystem to deal with a similar 16GB memory window and latency/power cliff, thus saving power and boosting the battery life in the next generation to come.