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?
Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months agoI think Apple gets all their RAM from 2008, because they charge $50/GB for it.
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because they have an extremely consumer friendly UI/UX and a very stable OS.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
tabular@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Don’t they also solder it to the motherboard so you can’t upgrade your RAM as well?
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 7 months 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.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months 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.
4am@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That has more to do with faster traces; the ram is “closer” to the CPU so the signal is cleaner.
Not defending the move, I’d take upgradability in a laptop.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 7 months ago
This is both great, and incredibly annoying because they selected 8gb as the base…
billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So wait- if you want to increase your RAM, you have to install a whole new CPU?
4am@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You buy a whole new Macbook
lupec@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s soldered as well! It’s theoretically possible but way too involved for most to bother with hiring a professional to get it done or what have you.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 7 months ago
No, you just buy one with the amount of RAM you need.
Petter1@lemm.ee 7 months 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.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s literally how Intel integrated GPUs work too
DarienGS@lemmy.world 7 months ago
With Apple’s chips the RAM is all on the CPU die so both CPU and GPU get the performance benefit. With Intel’s, none of it is.
Petter1@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yea but the RAM is not on the located within the chip design, is it?
Sendbeer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well yeah, if you were paying $50 a GB wouldn’t you too? Got to lock that shit down!