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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by mc32 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @08:34AM (#38204770)
Why do they have to shave a few bucks of BoM and jump through hoops explaining why their 8GB is equivalent to their 16GB.

It’s like AMD saying out megahertz are better than your megahertz. It may be true but people just look at standard numbers.

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by lstodd on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:03AM (#38205096)
In order to sell another 8G for $200 obviously.

Like theregister puts it:

> There's a reason why we used to refer to Apple as the Cupertino idiot-tax operation.

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by abriosi on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:20AM (#38205306)
That example is very actually very good one.

It has been known for years that megahertz are a terrible metric to measure CPU performance. The peak of that discussion was during the launch of Pentium 4, where it was proven that the IPC was much worse when comparing to a previous Pentium even though it had a lot more the clock speed.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 (Microarchitecture)

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Re:Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's li... by rchaud on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:21AM (#38206115)
The Apple version of "community-adjusted EBITDA"
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