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Re:If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery by dahauns on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:29PM (#15893040)
>>The newest Macbook Pros still have 16GB RAM tops

>And for a very good reason. Low-powered (suitable for laptop use) support for 32GB memory wasn't there in Intel chipsets. But not only you didn't bother to investigate, but you know better.

You're actually proving his point for him. This excuse wouldn't work for anyone else but Apple.

Of course normal DDR4 is perfectly fine to use in laptops (compared to lpddr3) without severely damaging your battery life, other manufacturers manage to do it just fine. And while I'd agree that ekeing out those extra standby (because there isn't even much difference in load efficiency between the two) minutes is great for the smaller devices, it becomes ridiculous when one consciously orders a device with a 45W TDP Quadcore CPU, 2TB SSD and dedicated GPU with 4GB GDDR5.

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Re:If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery by coldtea on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:57AM (#15895902)
>Of course normal DDR4 is perfectly fine to use in laptops (compared to lpddr3) without severely damaging your battery life, other manufacturers manage to do it just fine.

Not according to Intel either, so the point is moot.

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Re:If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery by dahauns on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:17AM (#15895949)
Yeah, no. Just...no. (EDIT: To clarify - I call BS.)
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