15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class RAM, Later This Year

Re:15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class... by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday January 16, 2017 @08:57PM (#13414605)

AIUI, 16GiB was the largest RAM configuration for the new MacBook Pros because the CPUs did not support larger amounts of low-power memory. So, a higher-RAM configuration would require using power-hungry desktop memory, and thus mean significantly lower battery life.

Is that a trade-off people are willing to make? I guess Apple assumed it wasn't worth it with the most recent refresh, but maybe changed their mind after people spoke out.

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Re:15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class... by aries1980 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:08PM (#13439509)

Are you sure about that? The Lenovo P50s with Skylake i7 can be ordered with 32GB RAM: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p50s/...

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Re:15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:44PM (#13445445)

If they have more RAM, they're either using a different CPU, or using higher-power RAM chips.

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Re:15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class... by mhmiles on Monday January 16, 2017 @09:05PM (#13414635)

New cpus will support LPDDR4 which is available in larger capacities. No trade off

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Re:15'' MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake and 32GB of Desktop-Class... by ac29 on Monday January 16, 2017 @09:55PM (#13414834)

Source? There are no announced Kaby Lake mobile processors that support LPDDR4 [0]. The highest end ones support DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133, and DDR3L-1600.

http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/82879/Kaby-Lake#@Mobi...

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