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M500 ,

It’s because AI needs a not a ram. I think Apple did not expect or plan for ai which shows in the fact that only the latest pro phone can have Apple intelligence. It’s because that phone has enough ram.

Now they will boost ram across the board because Apple intelligence will not run well without it.

Depending on pricing, I may actually buy a MacBook in 2025.

I’ve wanted one since the m1, but I’ve held out until 16gb was the starting amount of ram.

mechoman444 ,

Oooo a whole 16 gigs! It can run Firefox with more than four tabs open!

potentiallynotfelix ,

And it probably won’t be able to be upgraded by the user, which should be the bare minimum.

reddig33 ,

“640k ought to be enough for anyone.”

cupcakezealot ,
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i could run wing commander 2, ultima underworld, and lands of lore. who needs any more?

tal , (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

henfredemars ,

It’s amazing that with transparent huge pages in Linux I can have memory pages bigger than that entire 640k.

masterspace ,

Let me know how many multiple thousands of dollars it’s going to cost for a MAX variant of the chip that can run three external monitors like it’s 2008.

SteveFromMySpace ,

Wasn’t that only the M1 specifically that lacked that feature?

Not saying it was acceptable but pretty sure all chips after have supported 3+ monitors

carleeno ,

My last job issued me an M2 air that could only power 1 external monitor. Was annoying as hell.

masterspace , (edited )

Nope. All base Mx Series Macs can only support a single external monitor in addition to their internal one.

Pro Series are professional enough that Apple deems your work worthy of using two (2) external monitors.

Max Series are the only ones that have proved their Maximum enough to Apple to let them use 3 monitors.

It’s honestly absurd. And none of them support Display Port’s alt mode so they can’t daisy chain between monitors and they max out at 3, whereas an equivalent Windows or Linux machine could do 6 over the same Thunderbolt 3 connection.

Windows and Linux machines also support sub pixel text rendering, so text looks far better on 1080p and 1440p monitors.

I have to use MacOS for work and while I’ve come to accept many parts and even like some, their external monitor support is just mind numbingly bad.

tal ,
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I guess you could get an eGPU. Probably not cheaper than just giving Apple their pound of flesh, though.

brbposting ,

sub pixel text rendering, so text looks far better on 1080p and 1440p monitors.

Why would you need that? Buy an Ultra Pro Retina Max Display and please get the stand if you don’t want Apple to go out of business.

AlphaOmega ,

Welcome to 2010

Toes ,

Why are apple products always so anemic on memory?

Munkisquisher ,

Greed, it lowers the advertised price, but once you spec it decently you’ve added a grand in extras

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Price discrimination based on memory loadout is real, but it’s not specific to Apple, either.

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

for the same price other laptops sell for 64GB

what a bargain

Omgboom ,

Linux requirements: CPU (optional)

cmnybo ,

Considering that RAM is shared with the GPU, it’s still not enough.

floofloof ,

It’s OK - for an extra $400 they’ll sell you one with an extra $50 worth of RAM.

JohnDClay ,

It doesn’t even cost that for them.

scottmeme ,

$800 for $30 of ram

PoopMonster ,

“yeah but that’s like having 32GB on a lame PC”

Nomecks ,

Golly, thanks Apple. It’s not like I can go buy a 256GB DIMM right now. 16GB what a joke.

Pantsofmagic ,

It’s really sad that this needs to be an actual headline.

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