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If Apple can get away with decent performance at 16G why would they ship more in the first generation? A few people won't upgrade yet because they need more mem

If Apple can get away with decent performance at 16G why would they ship more in the first generation? A few people won't upgrade yet because they need more memory, but a lot of people will upgrade again when they release the 32G models in a year or two.

waynesonfire 6y ago
they're giving you the bare minimum product at the highest possible price as it it increases profit margins.
- eyelidlessness 6y ago
  So far every M1 Mac has had the same entry price point (except IIRC the MacBook, which was priced lower), with comparable or higher specs. They very seldom increase (or decrease) margins on a given product line, and I seriously doubt this is an exception. They tend to target a feature set, margin (generally ~30% on Macs), then price point—usually in that order. Given the pricing so far, my impression is they’re generally taking reduced costs as an opportunity to improve the entry level feature set.
- rualca 6y ago
  > they're giving you the bare minimum product at the highest possible price as it it increases profit margins. You can buy a Mac mini with M1 with 8GB of RAM for around 800€, and the same Mac mini M1 with 16GB of RAM for around 1030€. That's hardly "the highest possible price"
spfzero 6y ago
With flash memory performance as good as they're getting now, swapping is not the bottleneck it was with spinning disks. The pain of being memory-constrained is not so painful anymore in many use cases.
- zuhsetaqi 6y ago
  Flash storage is still a lot slower than RAM and also has limited write lifetime