This is both great, and incredibly annoying because they selected 8gb as the base…
Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 10 months agoIt’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.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 months ago
billiam0202@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So wait- if you want to increase your RAM, you have to install a whole new CPU?
4am@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You buy a whole new Macbook
lupec@lemm.ee 10 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 10 months ago
No, you just buy one with the amount of RAM you need.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Only makes a difference at oc levels of manual tuning. Which apple isn’t doing at their factory I reckon.
4am@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I mean, when you’re the one manufacturing the board, I’m pretty sure you could eek out some more baseline performance without having to tweak each one for OC in the production line, my dude.