Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals

Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by notadoc on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @05:14PM (#16971726)

The current MacBook Pro can't be scrapped soon enough. What a mess.

Frankly if Apple just updated the old trusty 2015 MacBook Pro model to have 32gb RAM and a faster CPU, I'd be thrilled.

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Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by Bud on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:28PM (#16972702)

Which they can't. Intel CPUs don't support 32 GB RAM yet.

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Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by TheGorramBatman on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:48PM (#16982735)

False. If you check Intel ARK, you can see, for example, the i7-2860QM has a max RAM of 32 GB (and this is a processor from 2011). Heck, the i7-8809G supports 64 GB.

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Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by Bud on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:31PM (#16989082)

We're speaking of mobile CPUs and LPDDR4, here. In other words, viable designs for laptops with good battery life that don't weigh 8 pounds.

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Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by hankhonk on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:14AM (#16974814)

my thinkpad is running on 40GB RAM on an i7 just fine

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Re:Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals by cerberusss on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:12AM (#16975517)

Yep, because it doesn't use a mobile i7. So Lenovo made a different battery/RAM size tradeoff.

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