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Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it::Apple still sells expensive "Pro" computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's like building a fast car that can only go straight. It's impressive but short-sighted and therefore stupid.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

There are specific performance benefits to soldering your memory to the board or making them part of the main die itself. It’s why GPUs have been doing it for a long time, and why laptops with soldered ram can often achieve higher clocks and lower latency than their socketed counterparts. It’s a tradeoff, but a calculated one. I’m sure Apple also adds the extra revenue from absurd upgrade costs into their calculations.

[–] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Somebody has never been to a top fuel drag race. Impressive does not even begin to describe what those “fast cars that can only go straight” are capable of.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ha ha. Most people don't use their laptops exclusively for one single thing. I sometimes need a laptop that can go fast but more often it needs to be able to many different things. And some years later, let me swap in some more RAM and an SSD to give it another few good years.