Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think Apple gets all their RAM from 2008, because they charge $50/GB for it.

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  • Iwasondigg@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t they also solder it to the motherboard so you can’t upgrade your RAM as well?

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    • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not so much soldered to the motherboard as much as part of the same package as the CPU. As in: there are no separate memory chips.

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      • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But they did indeed solder it in before that, on their old Intel laptops. I think they started doing that in 2013 or 2014 but I forget exactly.

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      • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is both great, and incredibly annoying because they selected 8gb as the base…

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      • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So wait- if you want to increase your RAM, you have to install a whole new CPU?

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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol, the ram is part of the m3 chip That’s a reason why it is so efficient. The storage in m3 is for RAM and videoRAM.

      Wikipedia: The M3’s Unified Memory Architecture features up to 24 GB RAM, the M3 Pro up to 36 GB, and the M3 Max up to 128 GB. Like the M2 generation, the M3 SoCs use 6,400 MT/s LPDDR5 SDRAM. As with prior M series SoCs, this serves as both RAM and video RAM.

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s literally how Intel integrated GPUs work too

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    • Sendbeer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well yeah, if you were paying $50 a GB wouldn’t you too? Got to lock that shit down!

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  • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How the fuck did Apple manage to be the largest company on the planet doing shit like this? Are Apple users really that fucking dumb?

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    • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because they have an extremely consumer friendly UI/UX and a very stable OS.

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And they’re much better at marketing than they are at making computers or phones. Apple is probably the most successful marketing company int he world.

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Their UI and UX is shit. You basically can’t use it for many basic tasks without installing a bunch of third party (proprietary and expensive) software.

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      • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not sure “friendly” is quite the right word… you can argue it’s well designed or cultivated users but Apple is anything but a "friend"ly.

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• TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apple loves under ramming (to give a word a new meaning) and forcing everyone to pay for upgrades. The problem is there are always people that buy the base.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At this point I’m pretty sure the ram costs more than the rest of the laptop.

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• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the point is to squeeze out a couple extra hundred dollars from customers.

    Apple has long done price anchoring with their products just like in this case.

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• DarienGS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apple’s RAM isn’t as cheap as you might think, because it’s all built directly onto the CPU die. That’s part of what makes its computers so fast.

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  • WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s iRAM!

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