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A comment on Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces. Parent comment

Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by baq on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:09PM (#16092397)
dram cells used to be bigger.
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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by cjsuk on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:17AM (#16095380)
Yes. Exactly.

Also SSDs scare me more. MLC disks have so many states stored in a capacitor that is trusted not to leak over the lifetime of the device. All it takes is a few electrons to go walkies and it’s game over.

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