The fact that half a year ago, you could buy a Mac Studio with 512GB RAM, and today the max option is 96GB.
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@ela Apple *deliberately choosing* an #AntiRepairDesign aka. Anti-Upgrade - Design should be outlawed.
- Also the #AIbubble needs to crash so hard that the profiteers like Jensen Huang are begging for mercy in public…
@kkarhan @ela The RAM limit on Intel Silicon macs is because the RAM and SSD is on-die (or chiplet-based and in the same carrier) with the CPU. The bandwidth is *insane*. Even a weedy Mac Neo (with a phone chipset, minus a core!) feels really fast.
Downside: you can't easily upgrade a single slab of silicon with on-die memory. Might be possible to slap a bunch of DDR5 into a TBolt5 attached peripheral as a very fast SSD and then have the OS swap to it, but that's about it.
@cstross @ela Yeah, it is fast, but at which cost?
- And is this merely done to shaft #consumers and act as #AntiRepairDesign?
To me it's the latter: There is neither "legitimate reason" nor sufficient advantages to warrant this.
- Otherwise we'd have #HBM for years on everything!
It's just a big-ass middle-finger by #Apple (and those that copy Apple's #AntiRepair - #Design) to do this and turn what could've been a 5' #DIY repair into a spechalist soldering job requiring #JessaJones / #dosdude1 / #LouisRossmann - skill levels and tooling to even attempt it, driving up costs.
- Worse than #SolderedDownRAM are only #SolderedDownSSD|s because those not only can but WILL INEVITABLY FAIL OVER TIME due to useage even if they ain't designed in a way that the laptop suicides them with 12V…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYG4VMqatEY
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