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points by geff82 2 days ago | 0 comments
Waited for it so long but.... still no memory option for more than 32GB. It would be nice to have some kind of a pro model.
[–] bigwheels 2 days ago
32GB max memory is ludicrous today. We've regressed as a technological society.
[–] lynndotpy 2 days ago
Did you know Moore had two not-as-famous cousins with their own laws? Sam and Leslie.

Sam predicted price-per-transistor-per-square-inch density would asymptote, while Leslie predicted it would level off and then regress.

Leslie's Law is in full effect, it seems.

[–] bigyabai 2 days ago
It's a fairly realistic lower-bound for professional macOS work, if you don't want to thrash the SSD with zram writes.
[–] foldr 2 days ago
Aside from running local LLMs (which is tight on 32GB anyway), what on Earth are people doing that requires 32GB as a bare minimum? I have 24GB on my current MacBook Pro and never find myself limited by it. My work MacBook Pro has 16GB, and that is occasionally a bit tight. However, that's largely because the stingy 512GB SSD quickly fills up, leaving no room for swap, not because I really need more RAM as such.

That said, I don't believe that SSDs can feel pain, so I am quite happy for the OS to thrash them as much as necessary. The fear of SSD failure is massively overblown IMO.

[–] throwAway30303 1 day ago
As I happily whir away on my 8Gb Neo.

Everything I use, almost literally everything, is either cloud or a box I’m ssh’d into.

I can see how I’m the exception, though.

[–] asdff 2 days ago
If you find yourself loading that much stuff in memory you probably need to offshore your compute
[–] bigyabai 2 days ago
As the saying goes, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
[–] verdverm 2 days ago
the laptop has up to 128G as an option, but also pushes towards 10k for a laptop, insane
[–] Aurornis 2 days ago
The M6 Pro and Max variants with higher memory support have been dropped in favor of accelerating M7.

This has been reported for many months. Sorry if you missed the news, but if you need a much higher memory variant the M5 Pro/Max are what’s available this cycle.

[–] iAMkenough 2 days ago
They’re looking for an iMac Pro. Sorry if you didn’t catch that, but M5 Pro / Max are not available in iMac form.
[–] Aurornis 2 days ago
I understand that, but they said they were waiting for a higher memory variant M6, which was not planned. If they need higher RAM they can go M5 Pro/Max (outside of iMac form factor) or wait hopefully for newer iMac Pro variants in the future.

To be honest, I doubt we're going to see iMacs with very high RAM any time soon. RAM is expensive and most people buying high-RAM machines want to bring their own monitor, not get an all-in-one with a small-ish screen.

[–] iAMkenough 2 days ago
> they said they were waiting for a higher memory variant M6

That's not what they said. I gathered they were waiting for an iMac refresh, with the hopes that iMac Pro would get an upgrade. Hence the "would be nice to have some kind of a pro model"

> most people buying high-RAM machines want to bring their own monitor

The 27" iMac Pro 5K is holding its value pretty well on second-hand markets, despite its age. The Mac Studio replaced the Mac Pro, not the iMac Pro.

[–] rightnutwingjob 2 days ago
The maxed out M5 Ultra Mac Studio is only AU$28,700 / US$18,300.

Peripherals not included.

[–] OsrsNeedsf2P 2 days ago
How is it that after 10 years of Apple releases, people are still complaining about it "missing" feature X? Not having every checkbox ticked is Apple's way of having shiny new releases all year round.