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M1 Mac SSD and RAM can be upgraded. Also, grass is green.
Microdoser:
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--- Quote from: tom66 on April 10, 2021, 01:06:31 pm ---The fact that Apple sees fit to ship a £1300 laptop with 8GB of RAM is the most disturbing thing about this all.
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I kinda agree, though Apple is far from alone in that. A lot of the top-quality PC vendors also sell super-slim laptops in the same price class with just 8GB RAM. :(
I am long, long overdue for new computers (both Macs for my personal use, and now I need a PC for school), and I don’t even like the thought of just 16GB! I want 32GB at least, at least on my workhorse Mac.
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Just recently I was outside my house and found an abandoned PC in the street, people often leave items out so anyone who would find them useful can pick them up.
It was an I7 6700K, 24GB RAM and a 256GB M.2 SSD. The graphics card was toast
I have now updated my concept of 'trash' to include anything with specs lower than that.
8GB these days is just a joke.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: tooki on April 12, 2021, 11:55:47 am ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on April 12, 2021, 08:24:28 am ---Maybe they could do this new thing, where they dont place the memory on the SOC. They place it on this extra PCB, and then it is possible to replace the memory. Maybe they could do this to, IDK, the SSD, the memory and the wireless. Or how about a replaceable battery pack. Or a replaceable CPU. You know instead of soldering it to the MB directly, you have some sort of mechanical way of attaching it to the MB.
So this way the laptop doesn't turn into e-waste when a 12 year old kid codes the next website in java and uses too much RAM. Do you think this would be feasible?
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That’s crazy talk!
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I know! But the real crazy talk is this:
--- Quote from: Microdoser on April 12, 2021, 01:30:18 pm ---Just recently I was outside my house
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Microdoser:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on April 12, 2021, 06:11:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on April 12, 2021, 11:55:47 am ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on April 12, 2021, 08:24:28 am ---Maybe they could do this new thing, where they dont place the memory on the SOC. They place it on this extra PCB, and then it is possible to replace the memory. Maybe they could do this to, IDK, the SSD, the memory and the wireless. Or how about a replaceable battery pack. Or a replaceable CPU. You know instead of soldering it to the MB directly, you have some sort of mechanical way of attaching it to the MB.
So this way the laptop doesn't turn into e-waste when a 12 year old kid codes the next website in java and uses too much RAM. Do you think this would be feasible?
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That’s crazy talk!
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I know! But the real crazy talk is this:
--- Quote from: Microdoser on April 12, 2021, 01:30:18 pm ---Just recently I was outside my house
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I know, once I was back inside I had to have a little sit in my favourite chair to calm down.
BrokenYugo:
--- Quote from: tom66 on April 10, 2021, 01:06:31 pm ---The fact that Apple sees fit to ship a £1300 laptop with 8GB of RAM is the most disturbing thing about this all.
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That is pretty bad, especially for a "high end" manufacturer. Last time I spent that kind of coin on a laptop was almost 10 years ago and I got 12GB!
John B:
16 GB is probably a fair minimum RAM now. I have just finished building a new system with Catalina and it regularly uses 9 GB, even before getting to intensive stuff like video editing. The new macs seem to mask this shortfall with their fast SSDs by utilising a lot of page file swapping. For the price that macs go for, cmon just toss in an extra 8GB over standard.
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