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> € 230,00 for +8 MB RAM?! There are places you can get that for a tenth of that price. "Comparing our memory to other system's memory actually isn't equivalen
by talldayo 2y ago
> € 230,00 for +8 MB RAM?! There are places you can get that for a tenth of that price.
"Comparing our memory to other system's memory actually isn't equivalent [...] because of the fact that we have such an efficient use of memory, and we use memory compression, and we have a unified memory architecture."
- Bob Borchers, Apple vice president of worldwide product marketing (who apparently never heard of zram)
- throawayonthe 2y agowindows also uses memory compression
- FireBeyond 2y agoYeah, that doesn't explain why the Intel Mac Pro cheesegrater wanted $3,000 for 160GB of socketed RAM that OWC would sell from the same manufacturer, same speeds, for $1,000 for 192GB. Sorry Bob, architecture may be different now, but Apple has always been egregious.
- MonkeyClub 2y agoBut what's the point in Borcher's comment? Because there's efficient software use of memory, it's legitimate to put a tenfold price marker on the hardware?