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16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why are apple products always so anemic on memory?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Because a huge part of their business model over the past twenty years has been the upsell.

I bought my first MacBook in 2007. It had 2gb of RAM as standard. I asked about upgrading it, the guy told me to pick some up online as it would be waaaay cheaper, and he was right. Did the same for the MacBook Pro that replaced it a few years later, but in the meantime they moved to the soldered model so had to swallow the cost of the 16gb 'upgrade' in my M2 Air.

To be fair, the cost over time of my Macs has been incredible. My 2011 MBP is still trucking along, these days running Linux Mint. With the cost to upgrade the RAM and replace the HDD with an SSD, all in it cost me around £1200. Less than £100 a year for a laptop that still works perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Because there are two types of mac users:

People that are buying them with their own money because they're trendy and just using them as glorified Internet browsers. 16gb is plenty.
People using them professionally so their company is paying and Apple can over charge for the necessary memory upgrade

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This pretty much. I don’t care that much that a maxed out MBP is $6000 or whatever, my employer pays for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This pretty much. I don’t care that much that a maxed out MBP is $6000 or whatever, my employer pays for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have an m2 8 gb. And it’s plenty. It’s just a browsing/discord/stream box basically.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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