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8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests::Apple's new MacBook Pro models are powered by cutting-edge M3 Apple silicon, but the base configuration 14-inch model starting at $1,599...

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[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also Apple™ RAM costs like 4 to 8 times as much. Being $200 for 8GB. So assuming fantasy land Apple™ iMagic™ means 8GB = 16GB it's still a minimum of twice the cost per dollar

[–] echodot 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple ram actually is just more dense. They can fit more binary in each gigabyte.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok, so a tech neophyte here so please dont crucify me. Would that not be adding more transistors to the ram? And, would that not affect clock speed?

[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Echo Dot's joking, more binary per gigabyte doesn't actually make sense

[–] charliespider@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You done got whooshed 😂

[–] sergih@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

an explanation of the joke :D, he is saying more binary in a gigabyte, I get what u mean with the transistors but he aint talking about that, he talks about being able to fit more data (binary, the raw data, ones and zeroes) in the same space (one gigabyte, like 1024^9 or around 1billions spaces for the ones and zerors) bc ofc, it's apple so they somehow can save morr info in the same amount of space, that's whatvhe meant :)

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the clarification! I appreciate it. I guess I was equating the binary, ones and zeroes, to the transistor gates either been on or off. Again, thank you!

[–] sergih@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

and if u spend another 200 it goes from 16 to 32, so apparrntly somehow 8gb can cost 200 or 100 bc apple