Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
by fastball on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:57PM
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2019 16" maxed out at 64GB, which is the same as the M1 Max.
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
by yurishimo on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:16AM
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They specifically mentioned the speed. DDR4 is used in 99% of PCs right now. Apple can use faster memory on the die directly.
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
by fastball on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @06:07AM
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Ah true, there might be a bit of crossed wires here. It seems like @mizzack was using "bumped up" to mean the amount of RAM, while @Alex3917 used the same phrase but this time to mean LPDDR5/speed, but obviously I interpreted the latter as amount (because that was the context).
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
by Alex3917 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @07:15AM
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I was also talking about the amount of RAM. The reason they didn't allow people to increase the RAM at all for a couple years as because of the power consumption. After people freaked out they eventually added an option, but kind of discouraged it. I had forgotten that they even added that option though.
They couldn't use LPDDR5 RAM with Intel chips. They wanted to bump up the RAM years ago, but couldn't do it until now.