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Memory 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
by wombat-man 3y ago
Memory 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.