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I've been running an M1 Air w/ 8GB for a few years, and it's still working fine.
Me too but the latest macOS version has ruined it for me, I had to switch back to a previous version.
* Absorb the impact by some margin * Slash base models (which they are already doing) * Efficient software - So, end user experience is not affected. * Direct Price hike always be an option.
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It's the websites that use that RAM, not the browsers. (Often the ads on the websites.)
I disagree, there is low-hanging fruit Firefox is leaving on the table. The main thing that comes to mind is tab unloading. They don't unload tabs automatically like chrome can. I was pleasantly surprised at the tab unloading settings under "memory saver" in ungoogled-chromium.
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I would suspect at Apple scale it makes sense. Apple has started making a lot of different things in house, its only a matter of time imo.
I doubt they want to make a commodity. But who knows. Their unified memory architecture across core types already puts them in a different design space. Maybe that design space leads them to further opportunities for memory architecture differentiation. I could see them (1) taking the two processing chips that make up an Ultra in coming generations, (2) fabbed with logic on top, and power distributed on the back side…
Ex-Apple kernel engineer here, Apple will deal with the memory shortage by making software more efficient in ram usage. Apple will just make every aspect of the system more and more memory efficient. They've done it before over and over and can do it again.
I wonder if companies like Apple will eventually start making memory themselves.