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The difference between an 8GB macbook air and a 16GB maxbook air is $200, not $1000. Lot's more options in PCs obviously, but 2 minutes of googling found a 16G
by harryh 7y ago
The difference between an 8GB macbook air and a 16GB maxbook air is $200, not $1000.
Lot's more options in PCs obviously, but 2 minutes of googling found a 16GB XPS13 $580 more than the 8GB version. Again, not $1000. I'm sure with slightly more searching there are cheaper options as well.
- tjoff 7y agoYeah, as said the problem isn't just the ram price it's whatever else you might need to buy to get it. But 580 is also pretty darn depressing for 8GB. For reference I bought 64GB for my workstation for less than $400 a few years ago. And that's with 25% sales tax.
- dijit 7y agoThis isn’t a fair comparison. Desktop memory is cheaper, laptop manufacturers are rent seeking with upgrades normally, and with soldered memory they have free reign. It’s true that often the upgrades are bundled, ie; can’t get 16GiB without an i7. But I think that’s fairly rare at least. As for 16GiB, there’s a hard limit there for LPDDR3, and intel CPUs do not support LPDDR4 yet. Oh, and another thing regarding cost, there were some issues a long time ago with the factories producing them, which is why the price is still high, maybe artificially. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxb35/the-year-that-the-entire-computer-industry-ran-out-of-memory https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxb35/the-year-that-the-...
- tjoff 7y agoWasn't meant to be an apple to apple comparison. Just a reference. But it does kind of illustrate just how bad of a fit electron apps are. Well, the biggest point of soldered ram has always been to be able to recoup costs by denying people to buy ram from someone else. Even in the old days it was much cheaper to buy 2 GB of ram and then upgrade to 4 GB than buying it with 4 GB in the first place.