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>'Imagine what power they'll be able to pack into such a price once they apply Apple Silicon to the MBP. I'm thinking 128 or even 256 GB RAM ...' I'm intereste
by bogomipz 6y ago
>'Imagine what power they'll be able to pack into such a price once they apply Apple Silicon to the MBP. I'm thinking 128 or even 256 GB RAM ...'
I'm interested in why you think Apple will be able to build an integrated memory controller for a laptop that is capable or 128 Gigs or 256 Gig of RAM. Most laptops with Intel were stuck at 16 Gigs of RAM for years although more recently that has increased. My understanding about the reason for this is that these high capacity integrated memory controllers are very difficult to design. Is there something specific to ARM that would make iterating on these easier for Apple than it has been for Intel?
- hantusk 6y agoIsn't it possible to buy most high-end smartphones with 256 gig of RAM?
- acdha 6y agoThat’s storage, not RAM. 8GB of RAM is still a large amount for a phone.
- vaxman 6y agoApple learned (prior to 16”) that a large number of customers want to run huge VMs, load massive AI models and have faster imaging performance that comes with higher memory limits. I don’t think they are going to ever want to introduce another Prosumer machine that people slam publicly that hard again, plus they can’t exactly use the iPad Pro memory controller so they are designing a new one anyway.