Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System
by chaostheory on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:14PM
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I prefer macOS being in maintenance mode instead of becoming bloated with new but unimportant features especially given the 16 GB limit. The lack of hardware refreshes wouldn't have been horrible if Apple's hardware was easily upgradable like pre-retina models
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Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System
by PayForPeenus on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:36PM
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"... given the 16 GB limit." Can you explain that? I mean, as a 64bit operation system, that doesn't jive. Are you talking about physical memory in machines that are being sold now? I've swapped out tons of memory and never heard about this. - this isn't a jab either. I seriously am not sure what you mean. (no insult intended)
Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System
by ihuman on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @03:06PM
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Its limited because they are using low power LPDDR3 ram, which its limited to 16GB. LPDDR4 doesn't have this limit, but isn't supported by intel on Kabylake.
Re: Tim Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on an Autonomous Car System
by kogepathic on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:00PM
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> "... given the 16 GB limit." Can you explain that?
They are referring to the fact that Apple portables ship with soldered memory and max out at 16GB while PC manufacturers are shipping systems which support 32 and even 64GB in laptop/mobile workstation form factor.
So they are referring to the physical memory (RAM) limit of Apple devices, not any logical limitations of the OS.