Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week agoIt’s a bit first but if their primary motivation was performance improvements they wouldn’t be soldering 16 GB.
If you’re going to weld shoes to your feet, you better at keast make sure that they’re good shoes.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Why not? There is a performance benefit to being closer to the CPU, and soldering gets you a lot closer to the CPU. That’s a fact.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Yeah but if you’re only putting 6 GB of RAM on then you’re also going to be constantly querying the hard drive. So any performance game you get from soldering is lost by going all the way to the hard drive every 3 microseconds.
It’s only better performance on paper in reality there’s no real benefit. If you can run an application entirely entirely within the 6 GB of RAM, and assuming you’re not running anything else, then maybe you get better performance.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
And that’s the idea. Soldering memory is an engineering decision. How much to solder is a marketing decision. Since users can’t easily add more, marketing can upsell on more RAM.
It’s not “on paper,” the RAM itself is performing better vs socketed RAM. Whether the system runs better depends on the configuration, as in, did you order enough RAM.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I can’t tell if you’re a stooge or if you really think that. I hope you are stooge, because otherwise that’s a really stupid position you’ve decided to take and you clearly don’t actually understand the issue.