Engineering giveth and Marketing taketh away. Apple's unified memory couples great bandwidth and efficiency with annoying non-upgradability. But it's the pric

Engineering giveth and Marketing taketh away. Apple's unified memory couples great bandwidth and efficiency with annoying non-upgradability. But it's the pricing tiers that get you: cheapest 8GB at $600, 16GB at $800, 24GB at $1000, and then ... 32GB at $1700 (M2 Pro), 64GB at $2500 (Mac Studio.) The upselling trajectory is clear, as is the separation between the Mac mini and Studio. My daily driver is a 16GB MacBook Pro; I don't think I would be happy using an 8GB Mac mini. But I'm glad that there is a $600 Mac. It's probably great for some users, and it's cheaper than my iPhone.