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by geff8220 hours ago |
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upvoteby bigwheels18 hours ago|
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32GB max memory is ludicrous today. We've regressed as a technological society.
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upvoteby lynndotpy17 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby bigyabai17 hours ago|
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It's a fairly realistic lower-bound for professional macOS work, if you don't want to thrash the SSD with zram writes.
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upvoteby asdff17 hours ago|
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If you find yourself loading that much stuff in memory you probably need to offshore your compute
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upvoteby bigyabai14 hours ago|
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As the saying goes, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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upvoteby foldr17 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby verdverm20 hours ago|
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the laptop has up to 128G as an option, but also pushes towards 10k for a laptop, insane
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upvoteby Aurornis20 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby iAMkenough20 hours ago|
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They’re looking for an iMac Pro. Sorry if you didn’t catch that, but M5 Pro / Max are not available in iMac form.
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upvoteby Aurornis18 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby iAMkenough11 hours ago|
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> 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.

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upvoteby rightnutwingjob19 hours ago|
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The maxed out M5 Ultra Mac Studio is only AU$28,700 / US$18,300.

Peripherals not included.

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upvoteby OsrsNeedsf2P19 hours ago|
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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.
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