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.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 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 11 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 11 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.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Only makes a difference at oc levels of manual tuning. Which apple isn’t doing at their factory I reckon.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 11 months ago
This is both great, and incredibly annoying because they selected 8gb as the base…
billiam0202@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So wait- if you want to increase your RAM, you have to install a whole new CPU?
4am@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You buy a whole new Macbook
lupec@lemm.ee 11 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 11 months ago
No, you just buy one with the amount of RAM you need.