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“My hope is that Apple doesn't try to hurry out, say, a MacBook Air M3” Seriously? Drop an M3 in there as soon as it’s ready. Also, Apple still sells 8GB mac
by melling 3y ago
“My hope is that Apple doesn't try to hurry out, say, a MacBook Air M3”
Seriously? Drop an M3 in there as soon as it’s ready.
Also, Apple still sells 8GB machines with a $200 upgrade to 16GB.
Moore’s Law might be dead but we shouldn’t go down without a fight.
- slaymaker1907 3y agoAccording to Newegg, you can buy a 16GB RAM kit for $32 *total*. A $200 upgrade should be getting you 64GB+ and base models should really have a minimum of 16GB.
- wombat-man 3y agoMemory in apple silicon chips is in the unified chip. It's not just adding another stick of ram. But yes, how Apple prices upgrades is a little irritating in light of other options.
- rasz 3y agoPackage not chip, ram is soldered on top of cpu. You know who else does that? The other king of performance and expensive computing - Raspberry pi.
- wombat-man 3y agoWell, the point I was making is upgrading ram on a pc isn't really comparable. But sure, the raspberry pi. 2gb for $45. 4gb for $55(22% increase). 8gb for $75(66% increase over base) Both definitely price for higher margins for buyers who want more memory.
- postalrat 3y agoSo 1gb of ram in the raspberry pi costs about $5. $200 would buy 40 gigs if they had that option. For $200 apple gives you 8gb.
- chorsestudios 3y agoI'm not sure this is a fair comparison. The M2 was manufactured using the considerably more expensive N5P technology node. The 28nm cpu in the rasperry pi 4 was designed using a value node specifically to drive down price / transistor. EUV lithography is extraordinarily expensive so paying a premium for it seems appropriate.
- rasz 3y agobut you arent paying for more expensive M2, you are paying extra for ram.
- stetrain 3y agoCloser to $60 for top spec DDR5 5600MHz Apple uses LPDDR5 6400MHz They're definitely still making extravagant margins on their upgrades. They do seem to be moving to multiples of twelve for their newer machines. M2 supports 8/16/24. M3 Pro is rumored to support up to 48GB. My hope is that an M3 MacBook Air would start at 12GB with 24GB optional. M3 Pro could be 24/48, M3 Max 48/96, etc.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoIt's a big step up from their JEDEC days, that's for sure.
- slaymaker1907 3y agoIf they're using RAM like that, they're pouring money down the drain. RAM speed matters, but 8GB is such little RAM that most users will experience paging from just using their web browser. It's kind of like those guys that put modified exhausts and spoilers on a 2001 Honda Civic.
- soperj 3y agoI upgraded my ram from 4gb to 16gb in 2012 and it cost me $100 off of newegg and all of 10 seconds to install. $200 is crazy.
- paulmd 3y agoGreat deal. How much did it cost to get it stacked on the package? Everyone was crying out for this a few years ago from AMD, give us an APU with HBM or something! But because it’s from the Fruit Brand they now have to invent reasons to hate it.