The thing is that Apple is kind of moving towards making RAM the level 4/5 cache. It’s becoming more and more important to tie RAM closely to CPU to reduce powe

The thing is that Apple is kind of moving towards making RAM the level 4/5 cache. It’s becoming more and more important to tie RAM closely to CPU to reduce power consumption and lower latency. That’s naturally going to make RAM size grow more slowly than it did before and make it non-upgradable. I think the solution is to increase the amount of caching RAM on NVM storage, so the NVM acts more like RAM used to. So I really don’t think what Apple is doing with regards to RAM is a problem. But they should have a user replaceable NVM slot. Perhaps tiered with a soldered on NVM chip so you can cache some of the data on a low power, low latency NVM.