Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoIt’s not an upgrade though it’s just a different model. They’re not modules you can install and I don’t even think Apple can install them you just get a different motherboard.
Which is objectionable for so many reasons, not least of all E-Waste.
stellargmite@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeh I get that. Its treated as if its an upgrade - a sales upsell to a different unit I guess, rather than an upgrade to the literal unit the customer is receiving. Yep objectionable all round.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
My point is you cannot effectively upgrade after the fact. You have to buy a whole new device.
stellargmite@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Indeed. Making that initial decision even more of a forced decision toward the expensive upsell. Its evil. And wasteful as you said.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
There’s reasons behind this. LPDDR IIRC works most efficiently when it’s closer to the CPU than what dimms would allow for.
Boosts speed and lowers the power requirements.
It also incentivizes people to buy larger SKUs than they originally wanted, which, bluntly, is probably the main driver for going that direction… I’m just saying that there’s technical reasons too
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The technical benefits are honestly quite overblown. The M-series didn’t get the massive speed lift because it moved to soldered RAM near the CPU, it got the massive speed lift because it doesn’t have to copy stuff between the CPU and GPU, the proximity to the CPU is a pretty modest improvement. So they could’ve gotten 95% of the benefit while still offering socketed RAM, but they decided not to, probably to drive prices up.