Re:New MacBook Pro limited to 16GB of RAM, to save battery life
by informatimago on Sunday October 30, 2016 @02:20PM
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My laptop is used 99% of the time on power supply.
The one at work is used 90% of the time on power supply (and then, only because I'm lazy bringing the power supply in meeting room).
Apple is telling us: don't buy MacBook for your desk computing. Buy iMac for desk, and for the one hour or two a week you need a laptop, add a MacBook Pro too. Apple is telling us it very please would earn three times more money. Being the biggest corporation is not enough for it, it just wants more.
Re:New MacBook Pro limited to 16GB of RAM, to save battery life
by gc9 on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:57AM
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1. What widespread laptop applications need 20+ GB of random access memory? With the low latency of PCIe storage, virtual memory could cover the non-random access cases like editing UHD or DCI-4K videos, or data mining large datasets.
2. Apple might be looking forward to future generation processors, which might add on-package memory with lower power and faster bandwidth. If that on-package memory is limited to 16GB, then Apple could be preparing its software ecosystem to deal with a similar 16GB memory window and latency/power cliff, thus saving power and boosting the battery life in the next generation to come.
The one at work is used 90% of the time on power supply (and then, only because I'm lazy bringing the power supply in meeting room).
Apple is telling us: don't buy MacBook for your desk computing. Buy iMac for desk, and for the one hour or two a week you need a laptop, add a MacBook Pro too. Apple is telling us it very please would earn three times more money. Being the biggest corporation is not enough for it, it just wants more.
2. Apple might be looking forward to future generation processors, which might add on-package memory with lower power and faster bandwidth. If that on-package memory is limited to 16GB, then Apple could be preparing its software ecosystem to deal with a similar 16GB memory window and latency/power cliff, thus saving power and boosting the battery life in the next generation to come.