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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by stephenr on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:33AM (#17415366)
And it won’t be using low power memory modules. That’s the trade off.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by mort96 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:56AM (#17415485)
Maybe, if their MacBook Pros were just a little bit thicker (say, the thickness of the 2013-2015 models), they'd be able to fit a big enough battery for the extra power draw to not matter too much?
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by jpalomaki on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:50AM (#17416398)
"Considering that a 76 watt-hour battery is used in the 15 inch machines, they could have made the battery 30% bigger to hit the ceiling imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and they still wouldn’t have had the same battery life as they do now by using LPDDR memory." [1]

[1] https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/

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