32GB should be more than enough. You can go 16GB if you go native and throw some assembly in the mix. Use old school scripting languages. Debloat browsers. It has been long delayed.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Bill Gates
The RAM shortage comes for us all
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#22Anyone want to start a fab with me? We can buy an ASML machine and figure out the rest as we go. Toronto area btw
I hope you have very deep pockets. But I'm cheering you on from the sidelines.
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#23I wonder if Apple will budge. The margins on their RAM upgrades were so ludicrous before that they're probably still RAM-profitable even without raising their prices, but do they want to give up those fat margins?
I read online that Apple uses three different RAM suppliers supposedly? I wonder if Apple has the ability to just make their own RAM?
There are no large scale pure play DRAM fabs that I’m aware of, so Apple is (more or less) buying from the same 3 companies as everyone else.
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#24My understanding is that this is primarily hitting DDR5 RAM (or better). With prices so inflated, is there an argument to revert and downgrade systems to DDR4 RAM technology in many use cases (which is not so inflated)?
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#25I'm way ahead of all of you, I'm hoarding DDR2.
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#26I mean what's the big deal, can't we just download more ram
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#27Very happy to have bought a MBP M4 with 64 gb of Ram last year.
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#2932GB should be more than enough. You can go 16GB if you go native and throw some assembly in the mix. Use old school scripting languages. Debloat browsers. It has been long delayed.
16GB is more than fine if you're not doing high-end gaming, or heavy production workloads. No need for debloating. But it doesn't matter either way, because both 16 and 32GB have what, doubled, tripled? It's nuts. Even if you say "just buy less memory", now is a horrible time to be building a system.
I found web browser tabs eating too much memory when you only have 16GB
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#30Anyone want to start a fab with me? We can buy an ASML machine and figure out the rest as we go. Toronto area btw
Only if you put up the 10 billion dollars.