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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by kiddico on Saturday November 05, 2016 @05:18PM (#12881948)
If I remember correctly it's not the ram that they're going for, but the processor the ram attaches to. The skylake low power mobile cpus all use the low power ram(as one would expect), and for some reason is limited to 16gb on mobile.

So if apple wanted the low power cpu, they had to limit everyone to 16GB.

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by wila on Saturday November 05, 2016 @06:03PM (#12882158)
All of the Skylake i7 mobile CPUs can handle at minimum 32GB and at most 64GB [0]

[0] http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/37572/Skylake#@Mobile

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Re:Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac by wtallis on Saturday November 05, 2016 @06:32PM (#12882289)
As per the processor data sheet [0] 32GB is only possible with DDR4, not LPDDR3.

[0] https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/...

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