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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by runawaybottle on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:27PM (#25050459)
But 16gb is what I had in a computer 10 years ago.

I was just window shopping a new gaming rig, and 32gb is affordable (100 bucks), 64gb (200 bucks). Cheap as shit, what’s the hold up?

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by sroussey on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:41PM (#25050711)
The memory is on package, not way out somewhere on the logic board. This will increase speed quite a bit, but limit physical size of memory modules, and thus amount. I think they worked themselves into a corner here until the 16” which has a discreet GPU and reconfiguration of the package.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by egsmi on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:52PM (#25050883)
A little bit up is was shown the memory in M1 is 5.5GHz DDR5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25050625

Can you please provide the link to 64GB DDR5-5500 for $200? I'd love to buy some too!

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by fomine3 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:14PM (#25054432)
It's fair but if they choose fast but expensive and unexpandable technology, possibly the choice is failed in some perspective. I think most people who buy mini prefer RAM capacity than faster iGPU.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by runawaybottle on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:22PM (#25054505)
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=64gb+ram

I guess DDR 500 runs you 350. It looks like Apple charges you 600 for ddr 400 32gb. I don’t know, what am I missing here?

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by spacedcowboy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:43PM (#25054647)
Can you actually link to a product, not a search ? Because none of the items coming up there are DDR5-5500, they're all DDR4-3600 or worse, as far as I can see.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by runawaybottle on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:15AM (#25056196)
I guess I was wrong, everything is ddr4.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by egsmi on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:40PM (#25054620)
I’m confused. The link is for DDR4, it’s all too slow, and Apple doesn’t offer a 32MB M1 option at this time.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by saagarjha on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:32PM (#25050552)
A new processor architecture. Wait a couple months and you'll probably have the computer you wanted released too.
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