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This is a good point and begs an interesting question: will they continue using the same ARM chip across the whole line when the 16" MBP and the other iMacs mak
by brundolf 6y ago
This is a good point and begs an interesting question: will they continue using the same ARM chip across the whole line when the 16" MBP and the other iMacs make the switch, and if so, will all Macs of the same generation always have the same amount of RAM? Or will they branch the chips (M2 and M2S, or something)? Is RAM becoming less relevant when you have smart integration of software and hardware components, to a point where stratification is no longer necessary in most cases?
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago> Is RAM becoming less relevant when you have smart integration of software and hardware components, to a point where stratification is no longer necessary in most cases? If they intend these things to run software development, audio/video editing, CAD, or any other resource-intensive workloads, there will absolutely be demand for more.
- brundolf 6y agoI could see the M2 coming with 32GB across the board, at which point the only current outliers (setting aside the Mac Pro as a special case) would be the 64GB configuration for the 16" Macbook Pro and the 64GB and 128GB configurations for the iMac. I could imagine Apple's optimizations closing the performance gap with the current 64GB offerings, and then perhaps they just leave 128GB customers to go all the way for the Mac Pro. I would be surprised to hear that they sell very many 128GB iMacs right now anyway.
- mseidl 6y agoI'm waiting for their mac pro with apple silicon to be capped at 16gb of ram! ;)
- bochoh 6y agoI'm imagining the mac pro with n M1 chips such that you get the memory you want. Not dissimilar to how Ryzen memory access works.
- brundolf 6y agoHaha yeah. I assume the Mac Pro will remain a special case (as it is now), probably getting its own totally custom ARM chip when the time comes.
- jimbokun 6y agoThat is probably exactly why they are holding off on the 16" and iMacs, so they can engineer an Apple Silicon package with more RAM expansion options.