86 points

It’s really sad that this needs to be an actual headline.

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Lol, right? I had a dell laptop with 16GB in 2010. How are apple customers ok with this?

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Even phones have been available with more than 8 gigs of ram for ~5 years

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Golly, thanks Apple. It’s not like I can go buy a 256GB DIMM right now. 16GB what a joke.

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146 points

Considering that RAM is shared with the GPU, it’s still not enough.

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148 points

It’s OK - for an extra $400 they’ll sell you one with an extra $50 worth of RAM.

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43 points

It doesn’t even cost that for them.

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I think they meant what the end user would NORMALLY pay, which is the better comparison.

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28 points

$800 for $30 of ram

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“yeah but that’s like having 32GB on a lame PC”

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4 points

I remember an Apple fanboy arguing that this made things better!

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4 points

It does make some things better, but there are a number of downsides too. The biggest downside is that it’s not practical to make the memory socketed because of the speed that’s required.

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1 point

They balance that out by having almost no games for the Mac anyway.

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33 points

Linux requirements: CPU (optional)

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Paper Linux, computing done olde world style 📜 🤖

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i wonder if it’s actually possible to install linux on a machine without a CPU

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These days, the CPU probably runs Linux on itself.

Storage drive control boards are basically small computers in their own right, now.

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Linux is a bit heavy for embedded stuff.

Intel’s ME for an example, uses Minix.

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75 points

for the same price other laptops sell for 64GB

what a bargain

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