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Curiously, RAM sizes haven't gone up much for consumer tech. As an example: my Macbook Pro from 2015 had 16 GiB RAM, and that's what my MacBook Air from 2025 a
by eru 1y ago
Curiously, RAM sizes haven't gone up much for consumer tech.
As an example: my Macbook Pro from 2015 had 16 GiB RAM, and that's what my MacBook Air from 2025 also has.
- ericd 1y agoEhhh Macbook Pros can be configured with up to 128 now, iirc 16 was the max back then. But I guess the baseline hasn't moved as much.
- eru 1y agoYes, there has been some movement. But even an 8 fold increase (128/16) over a decade is nothing compared to what we used to see in the past. Oh, and the new machine has unified RAM. The old machine had a bit of extra RAM in the GPU that I'm not counting here. As far as I can tell, the new RAM is a lot faster. That counts for something. And presumably also uses less power.