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The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM (www.theverge.com)

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[–] fourish -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

These don’t use DDR5 memory. It’s all on the silicon with the CPU. The same pricing rules don’t apply.

And Mac users tend to be less “price sensitive” than PC users. My M4 Mac mini will be here next week. 24GB should be just fine on it.

Happily work is footing the entire bill for it, including a new monitor so it’s a pretty sweet upgrade for me.

[+] atempuser23 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] fourish 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Then you have to ask how would that change benefit Apple?

If there’s no significant benefit they won’t do it.

[+] atempuser23 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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[–] fourish 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now work profits over time into that equation and you’re getting it.

They make far more money selling entirely new computer hardware with integrated memory. They charge a fairly steep price for memory and I’m sure their fab costs are nowhere near that.

Banging out a new CPU with different amounts of memory is relatively cheap, not like they’re redesigning from scratch to throw in a few more memory components. Memory is simple and predictable.

If I was them I’d make a single chip with 32-64GB of RAM and just blow fuses to the necessary sizes to make it cheap, but although that makes sense for manufacturing it’s a PR issue down the road when someone finds out.