Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by acdha on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:14AM (#17416565)

> Every single Apple's competitor delivers laptops with 32+ GB of RAM, and MacBooks are stuck at 16GB and there's no one to blame for it but Apple.

This is only partially correct: those are separate models which are bigger and have worse power and heat characteristics. Every laptop which is similar to Apple's shares the 16GB limit for the same reason; the difference is that Apple has decided not to offer that second tier.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by markmark on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:55PM (#17421842)

Dell's XPS is comparable in size and performance to the MBP and has 32Gb of RAM available. Does the standard DDR4 they use effect battery life? Possibly, but that's a trade off I and others would take for our $4000 laptops not to grind to a halt when we spin up a few docker containers.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by coryfklein on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:16AM (#17417550)

> Apple has decided not to offer that second tier

MacBook Pro, a first-tier plaything. If they do finally release a "second tier", what the hell are they going to call it? MacBook Super Pro?

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by andromeduck on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:54PM (#17418561)

I'd imagine they'd call it Macbook Pro 17"

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