New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard

Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ... by masklinn on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @08:57AM (#4105612)

> My guess is that this isn't a macbook pro. Not for long.

It most definitely is, they're going to deprecate the older design over time. Just look at the specs, CPU and GPU are the same between old-style and Retina, but only the Retina gets a 16GB RAM option (with 8 base, versus 4 base for old-style), a retina display, Retina gets HDMI (and a second TB, which is the future as far as Apple's concerned), an updated Magsafe design.

The old-style remains to clear inventory and to wait for the cost of making/buying retina panes to get lower.

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Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ... by netcan on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:10AM (#4105675)

My guess wasn't that it'd be spun off into a separate line. Rather that Making the macbook pro thinner would make the only major advantage in the Air's favor price. That'd lead to an eventual merging of the two.

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