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More debate fodder about the 16gig limit on the new laptops…
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Interesting… I didn’t think there would be that many people with the same thought. We were talking about this at the cigar bar the other night. I guy that does a lot of internet based campaigns was looking to buy 12 new laptops, but changed his mind when he realized they were still stuck at 16gb. I was planning on two more but sat it out for the same reason. We should be past 16gb at this point, and at those prices…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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This must be an apple thing. I just purchased an asus laptop with 32 gigs expandable to 64. I don’t want to create any anxiety but could it be that apple wants to shift pros out of the laptops?
Ricardo Marty
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[Ricardo Marty] “I don’t want to create any anxiety but could it be that apple wants to shift pros out of the laptops?”
If anything, I think the opposite is more likely.
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[Ricardo Marty] “This must be an apple thing. I just purchased an asus laptop with 32 gigs expandable to 64. I don’t want to create any anxiety but could it be that apple wants to shift pros out of the laptops?”
Apple is choosing to use a certain type of processor to hit a certain battery life and size of computer. The next size processor would reduce battery life, and/or increase computer size. If you buy a PC with the same or similar processor, you will only be able to get 16GBs of RAM. This is not an Apple limitation. PCs allow you to buy other processors that will get you 32GBs of RAM, just not low power RAM. More here: https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/
The next generation of processors from intel that will allow 32GBs of RAM at Apple’s energy specifications (low power RAM) will probably be released in 2018.
I can’t imagine that Apple waits that long, and perhaps Apple’s and Intel’s ideals are drifting.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “The next generation of processors from intel that will allow 32GBs of RAM at Apple’s energy specifications (low power RAM) will probably be released in 2018.”
I thought the new Intel CPU was supposed to land mid-2017? Or are you accounting for Intel usually being late? 18 months between computer updates is now well within ‘normal’ for Apple, so it could be 2018 before the next MBP rolls out.
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[Andrew Kimery] “18 months between computer updates is now well within ‘normal’ for Apple, so it could be 2018 before the next MBP rolls out.”
I think they are scheduled for second half of 2017, which probably translates to 2018 release for Apple. I think that’s without any delay.
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