16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs

Welcome to 2010

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

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

for the same price other laptops sell for 64GB

what a bargain

I know it's not a like for like comparison, but the Pixel 9 Pro that launched this month has 16gb of RAM.

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

...is this actually 16Gb or 8Gb feeling like 16Gb, as per previous statements?

...in 2030.

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

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

Whoa, that's like 32GB of Windows RAM. Seems excessive to me tbh

My sister just bought a MacBook Air for college, and I had to beg her to spend the extra money on 16gb of memory. It feels like a scam that it appears cheap with the starting at price, but nobody should actually go with those "starting at" specs.

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.

and maximum since you probably won't be able to upgrade it since silicon doesn't allow upgrades

I don't really care unless it has the same price point as the 8gb one.

But we all know it won't be.

Naturally the price for the cheapest model will also be going to up several orders of magnitude more than the cost of materials, labor, and healthy profit margin to account for that as well I'm sure.

Why are apple products always so anemic on memory?

Isn't Apple the company that charges $5k+ for 16GB? All while intentionally deprecating the hardware within 2 years. /s

I've had to support their products on a professional level for over a decade. I will NEVER buy an Apple product.

“640k ought to be enough for anyone.”

Good, 8 is unusable for my workloads and 12 feels like they're just fucking with us

Has anyone ever successfully de-soldered Apple RAM and replaced it?

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.

I always thought 8gb was a fine amount for daily use if you never did anything too heavy, are apps really that ram intense now?

Ooohhh, wowie!

Meanwhile.im looking into upgrading my 64 gigs to 128, in small part because I might need to, in large Bart because I CAN.

Stop buying apple crap

Wait, that's it? Seriously?

It's about time.