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would require four so dimm slots

by yuhong 8y ago

blackflame7000 8y ago
They solder the ram to the mobo anyway. I'm sure they could find real-estate, the chips are pretty small.
- chedabob 8y ago
  Not sure if it's the case now, but the previous reason given for such little RAM was lack of availability of high-capacity, low-power chips. https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/phil-schiller-again-breaks-down-why-new-macbook-pro-is-limited-to-16gb-ram-citing-battery-logic-board-design/ https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/phil-schiller-again-breaks-do...
  - blackflame7000 8y ago
    Yea Apple could have a problem fitting those chips in if they can't get in contact with that design team makes the chassis for MacBooks. I wonder how Microsoft solved the problem on the surface? ;)
- cimmanom 8y ago
  The problem is that they keep shrinking the chassis, which leaves less and less room for anything besides the battery. I wish they'd just stuck with the previous generation retina chassis, which was plenty slim and light - it would have left room for more memory AND a bigger battery.
  - addicted 8y ago
    I think this is a problem of Apple's making. They used to have 3 laptop lines. The Air MacBook Pro The Macbook was the cheapest laptop Apple could make. The Air was the lightest/slimmest. And the Pro was the one that sacrificed weight and slimness for functionality. With time, the thinness of the Air didn't seem to add an additional cost to the product so it basically obviated the need for the Macbook. They were down to 2 product lines. The Air which was cheap. And the Pro that should have been as powerful as it can be. However, with the last refresh, Apple also decided to make slimness and weight a much higher priority with the Pro. So basically the differences in their product lines seem to boil down to price differentiation. All the product lines appear to have the same design constraints with the only difference being price allowed. This situation is worsened by the lack of a great pro desktop which leaves Mac users with almost no powerful computing options. You can have all the money in the world but you cannot get computing hardware similar to that of a 2-3 thousand dollar PC in the Mac ecosystem anymore.
    - veidr 8y ago
      > lack of a great pro desktop FWIW, I have had every generation of Power Mac G5 and every generation of Mac Pro except the very first, and the iMac Pro is by far my favorite of all of them. It's the best Mac ever made, not just in absolute terms (where it obviously should be) but also relative to everything else contemporarily available. I love that machine as much as I hate my 2017 MBP. (It did cost more than my car, though...)

would require four so dimm slots

by yuhong 8y ago

would require four so dimm slots

blackflame7000 8y ago

They solder the ram to the mobo anyway. I'm sure they could find real-estate, the chips are pretty small.

chedabob 8y ago
Not sure if it's the case now, but the previous reason given for such little RAM was lack of availability of high-capacity, low-power chips. https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/phil-schiller-again-breaks-down-why-new-macbook-pro-is-limited-to-16gb-ram-citing-battery-logic-board-design/ https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/phil-schiller-again-breaks-do...
- blackflame7000 8y ago
  Yea Apple could have a problem fitting those chips in if they can't get in contact with that design team makes the chassis for MacBooks. I wonder how Microsoft solved the problem on the surface? ;)
cimmanom 8y ago
The problem is that they keep shrinking the chassis, which leaves less and less room for anything besides the battery. I wish they'd just stuck with the previous generation retina chassis, which was plenty slim and light - it would have left room for more memory AND a bigger battery.
- addicted 8y ago
  I think this is a problem of Apple's making. They used to have 3 laptop lines. The Air MacBook Pro The Macbook was the cheapest laptop Apple could make. The Air was the lightest/slimmest. And the Pro was the one that sacrificed weight and slimness for functionality. With time, the thinness of the Air didn't seem to add an additional cost to the product so it basically obviated the need for the Macbook. They were down to 2 product lines. The Air which was cheap. And the Pro that should have been as powerful as it can be. However, with the last refresh, Apple also decided to make slimness and weight a much higher priority with the Pro. So basically the differences in their product lines seem to boil down to price differentiation. All the product lines appear to have the same design constraints with the only difference being price allowed. This situation is worsened by the lack of a great pro desktop which leaves Mac users with almost no powerful computing options. You can have all the money in the world but you cannot get computing hardware similar to that of a 2-3 thousand dollar PC in the Mac ecosystem anymore.
  - veidr 8y ago
    > lack of a great pro desktop FWIW, I have had every generation of Power Mac G5 and every generation of Mac Pro except the very first, and the iMac Pro is by far my favorite of all of them. It's the best Mac ever made, not just in absolute terms (where it obviously should be) but also relative to everything else contemporarily available. I love that machine as much as I hate my 2017 MBP. (It did cost more than my car, though...)