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Apple will let you add 256GB of RAM to an iMac Pro for $5,200
- jansan 8y agoFinally enough ram to run SVG blur filters in Safari!!!
- chrisseaton 8y agoWhy would a blur filter require a lot of RAM? It's a convolution isn't it? Shouldn't require any RAM at all.
- jansan 8y agoAt least on the iPhoneX some SVG blur filters can easily crash the whole browser. And it depends on the image size, so it is most probably a memory issue. But of course I do not know for sure because there was never any reaction on my bug report on Webkit. Anyway, now there is a great solution for this issue and it is only $5200.
- jak92 8y agoWhat's the street price for that much ram?
- paulrpotts 8y agoHard to say... I'm not sure that you can get 64GB PC4-21300 sticks anywhere else at the moment.
- peapicker 8y agoThe couple places I found some it was about $570-$860 per 64Gb memory module, so ~$2280 to ~$3450. NewEgg is having a sale, looks like real street is about $2000 if the modules they carry are compatible. But officially, for RAM upgrade, the iMac Pro is not user-serviceable, you have to take it to a service center to get the memory upgraded -- and if you go to Apple, they will probably not install 3rd party RAM.
- jak92 8y agoOK - apples price, while crazy isn't as bad of a markup as I expected.
- paulrpotts 8y agoYou can get a 128GB from OWC for $1679. I have used their RAM sticks for my old Mac Pro not once but twice (as prices came down) and they work great, and they will give you a credit for RAM you send back to them. That's not 256GB but it's also not $5200...
- oceanplexian 8y agoECC Server RAM can be found dirt cheap on ebay, since enterprises use it and toss the stuff on a regular basis. You could easily fine 128Gb of ECC DDR4 for like $800. If you find an older (but still extremely powerful) Xeon that takes DDR3, you can get the stuff for pennies on the dollar. It's also quite easy to run a hackintosh on Xeons, if that floats your boat.
- ataturk 8y agoApple has lost their minds. They know people will pay, though. They effed me on the Mac Mini with soldered on RAM and now they're effing me again with the price on the new Mini. But I'm not buying one.
- tracer4201 8y agoSerious question: what are legitimate use cases for 256GB RAM on a Mac? ETL loads? Graphic editing? Running as a server? I guess I’m ignorant of who the customer is here. Or is this more just enthusiast?
- chrisseaton 8y agoI have pretty unsurprising compile jobs that I run locally in a normal working day that could be run concurrently and make useful work of at least 256 GB. Instead I have to run them sequentially and they take forever. I have enough cores, not enough RAM.
- 420codebro 8y agoWhy not setup an autoscaling cluster in AWS for your build jobs? It is cheap as hell these days.
- p_l 8y agoIf the compile tasks depends on OSX, things get crazy. Even if you can avoid OSX for iOS (here be dragons, but it's possible)
- thedaemon 8y ago3d rendering can eat up all of your RAM. This is a decent computer for a freelance 3d artist. Although, not the best option.
- snowwrestler 8y agoSeems like anyone editing video would benefit from a ton of RAM.
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- NullPrefix 8y agoMulti tab browsing (sorry, couldn't resist)
- Tepix 8y agoUnlike the iMac, the iMac Pro is not designed to let the user upgrade its memory. I guess it takes a "pro" to take it apart and do it anyway (it's possible) and pay 7€ per GB instead of 25€ per GB. Btw the link should be changed from news.google.com to theverge.com
- JohnClark1337 8y agoHow generous of them
- dang 8y agoUrl changed from https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJeVXSlrlay6HQiVhn9J5tYqFwgEKg4IACoGCAow3O8nMMqOBjDc064F?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEJeVXSlrlay6HQiVhn9J5tY..., which points to this.