Many have questioned whether or not Apple could have made a MBP with more than 16GB of RAM given Intel's current CPUs. Gruber's discussion with Apple and subsequent analysis was that Intel don't have a part that they can use (e.g. one that supports 32GB of RAM), which get into the power and weight envelope they considered acceptable, and that envelope trumps all else at Apple.
Hitting that power and weight envelope is a hell of a lot easier when you make your own CPUs.
Yeah... so maybe not keep pushing an weight/thinness envelope that few seem to want if they could trade if for performance & battery... at least that's what I'm guessing, maybe the mainstream consumer care about showing mm's of their laptop but I kinda doubt it, at least battery performance seem more important
I don't understand the thinness, especially for the iMac, but I suspect they've researched how people respond to seeing them in person in stores. I definitely want light though, and I highly doubt a large number of users using a laptop will notice the difference between 16GB and 32GB compared to the storage now being twice as fast.
Other complaints include a loss of magsafe? I highly prefer being able to purchase numerous non-proprietary chargers for home, work, car, airplane rather than carrying a brick in my bag. Plus, anyone who wants the power connection to be breakaway can get whatever USB C equivalent there is or will be to ZNAPS[1].
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Many have questioned whether or not Apple could have made a MBP with more than 16GB of RAM given Intel's current CPUs. Gruber's discussion with Apple and subsequent analysis was that Intel don't have a part that they can use (e.g. one that supports 32GB of RAM), which get into the power and weight envelope they considered acceptable, and that envelope trumps all else at Apple.
Hitting that power and weight envelope is a hell of a lot easier when you make your own CPUs.
(http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/10/31/intel-mbp-ram)
Yeah... so maybe not keep pushing an weight/thinness envelope that few seem to want if they could trade if for performance & battery... at least that's what I'm guessing, maybe the mainstream consumer care about showing mm's of their laptop but I kinda doubt it, at least battery performance seem more important
I don't understand the thinness, especially for the iMac, but I suspect they've researched how people respond to seeing them in person in stores. I definitely want light though, and I highly doubt a large number of users using a laptop will notice the difference between 16GB and 32GB compared to the storage now being twice as fast.
Other complaints include a loss of magsafe? I highly prefer being able to purchase numerous non-proprietary chargers for home, work, car, airplane rather than carrying a brick in my bag. Plus, anyone who wants the power connection to be breakaway can get whatever USB C equivalent there is or will be to ZNAPS[1].
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1041610927/znaps-the-9-...