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My name is Lewis and I got really freaked when he said "Hi" to Louis Rossmann
I'm not sure exactly why i'm commenting on a 2 year old video. But could apple be using a MB chipset designed to only handle 16GB of ram and saving power that way?
I bet Rossman could make this (32gb soldered) happen on a new MBP…
and then apple made the 2018 MacBook pro with 32gb of ram
L3ave apple alone, they're just trying to make money, is it really their fault people keep handing them money for shitty products? If you like Apple you deserve to be fuck by them, I say Ross should stop helping all of the apple users
this is why I hate Apple..
Apple is shit!!
You can get the 64gb ram system now…
Whenever LTT is reviewing Apple products the review is VERY biased but this time you were spot on! Kudos (and liked the video)!!
I thought it was common sense that the only difference in power consumption were at the number os RAM sticks (and the voltage of course) so yeah 8gb/16gb/32gb ain't the issue here as long as we're talking 2 sticks of RAM.
Also the fact that the laptop has 2 cores is complete BS. 4 cores might drain more power but to a pro user that wouldn't be a factor as much as performance.
So yeah Apple's 'Pro' line is more of a brand name now than it is products for professionals – desktops included! Let's all grab some G5 cases on eBay and build our own Hackintosh's then…
2018- 32 GB of ram…
More than ten years to love with apple. But I’m done with them. When they make first touch bar MacBook Pro. Touch bar is never never never useful. Fucking disgusting USBC. They even show down my 1000$ thunderbolt hard drive speed like shit . Solid hard drive cannot upgrade. Memory cannot upgrade. Fuck the shit company. And my last MacBook unpro.
Why is james. Is it james? Dressed like linus in this video? I thought linus had gained weight when i saw the thumbnail either that or im going blind. My mother was right
Mac is only alive because of professional users and fan boys/girls cause i know nobody else who use macs optionally except for mynretarded cousin who thinks having apple everything is "legit" lol
There is CPU Socket, that means there could be RAM Chip socket too which can be upgradable. I just don't get Apple. They are oriented on money profit more than losing clients like me…
Overpriced underpowered garbage
4:44 so the difference in battery drain WAS negligible…
Lol
imagine if apple came out with a unibody sized MacBook Pro refresh with a 5 times bigger battery, 64 gigs of ram and an i9 that won't cook breakfast… only 15 grand and its yours
As a data scientist/machine learning engineer – I can confirm I never had to use a SD slot. Never worked at a tech company without a MacBook as the default choice.however, on YouTube, a laptop is only for the creative or content creator. Why would one need a laptop to do all of that – when you can grab a desktop to handle the heavy lifting.
2 years later and now the max amount of ram is 32gb in the new MacBook pro
They want u to keep upgrading one thing i realized with apple is everything is about money with them. Hence their products so hard to find parts for like an ISL GPU vcore chip something Luis mentioned. Another example is the soldered in parts.
Here in India 2018 MBP 13 inch is maxed out at 8GB RAM, and 15 inch at 16GB.
Are you surprised that apple´s ceo lied? lol
A BS for Apple claim.
Hey guys. Got a question. Yes I know Apple solders everything on their bored and that really sucks as do many things about Apple, but that's another story (btw I'm typing on an old macbook pro lol). But what happens if you removed the solder took out, say the ram, and popped in new memory, would that work? Or would it kill the logic board?
No professional content creator is using a laptop for editing, no matter the type.
the truth is that Apple soldered the RAM on their new machines on purpose to prevent what people used to do with the unibody macbook pro's.
apple stated these unibody macbook pro's only support up to 8gb of ram, people found out that they are actually in fact capable o 16gb of ram, so what many people did is buy the 4gb ram model and install 16gb of ram on it on their own, avoiding the 300$ apple price.
apple saw that and knew that their new 2016 macbook pro's are in fact capable of 32gb of ram and decided to screw over the consumer, (you aint upgrading shit on this machine dipshit, want more ram? pay us more money!, want more storage? pay us more money!)
Considering the processor it has, 16gb seems to be more than sufficient
i was like how the hell does he know my name ? lol
late comment, but also you should take into account that if you indeed use software that fills up the 32GB on a 16Gb system, the power will skyrocket with the continuous swapping to (wired) disk.
Also, the arguably useful touch bar will consume much more than the memory sticks.
Thank god hackintoshes are around.
Apple always says that there notebooks are working for more than 10 hours on the battery, and that is true, I have a i7 HP and a 2015 MacBook Pro, and in working time the MacBook outperformes the HP, but Apple had to give the choice to the customer.
What I think, because Apple is not the only one who glues memory to the mainboard, that wanting to make the smallest lightest laptop makes it's victims, and the first one is swapping memory.
But why do we complain about it, we can't change the memory easily from our smartphones. That said, I think that Apple sees it's notebook as a very large iPhone.
What I am curious about, I don't know if you tested this too, if you are working on your laptop, say with some heavier applications like Premiere Pro, if heat is accelerating the power consumption of the memory, so more heat, more consumption…..
Ooh and it is possible to upgrade the ram, but easy, nah, you need really skills to do that.
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Looking back, I am so glad that LTT as grow more mature from now. I am sure the LTT of today will not accuse a 13 inch laptop of not having a dedicated graphics card and not having ddr 4 support at that time.
We would all like more RAM but how many people really need more than 16Gb in a laptop?
im guessing that apple couldnt get enough pcb space
I have 32gb of lpddr3 in an ivy bridge laptop LOL
Is 64 enough?
Great video! Just found out today that my late 2012 13" MacBook Pro Retina with 8 gigs of RAM can't be upgraded. This is so stupid. This is why you buy a PRO model, so you can do PRO things–just like you said. I just started using DaVinci Resolve to edit video and audio and unfortunately for me, and perhaps many others, it has minimum system requirements of 16GB's of ram, but they recommend 32! So let's say I went out and bought the latest 16" MBP with 32GB's of ram today. That would cost me at least $3000! It would work great TODAY. But what about 5 years from now when Adobe or DaVinci requires 64 or 128GB's of ram? I would be screwed! You were right it's planned obsolescence. Apple get your act together STOP selling us supposedly PRO equipment that can't be upgraded.
Limit the RAM was a bad decision and i am glad that someone changed it.
I love the touch bar JustU.Faith/Mac_Pro?é–£ which I fully planned to hate after reading the reviews. It’s easy to customize and it does so many things just when you need them. Example, in finder, the trash can and new folder are right there (in my setup). In Quicktime it has a scrubber bar that lets you smoothly scroll to the frame you want. Oh well, some will hate it – i like it.
unsolder the ram and replace. My dad gonna do it for me in the future
what a name for someone defending apple "Shiller"!
I upgraded from an 8GB Macbook Pro to a 16GB and what I noticed was, with 8GB it used almost 100% of RAM all the time, and now with 16GB it uses around 50% and rarely goes beyond that. Anyways… I don't think 32GB would be roommy, as the current one I have uses the space over and under the motherboard, and probably there are chips out there capable of holding twice as much at the same size.
Why should Apple make that decision for the consumer
4 years later, and they still think 32gb of ram is too much lol.
Woah an LTT video featuring Luke? This is a throwback….
Can't they design RAM to turn off if it's not being used to save power?
Apple probably wants to sell more Mac Pros with tons of ram rather than continue to allow pros get away with using their MBPs and Minis and iMacs. I bet it's going to be a few years before tons of ram becomes a thing for anything but MPros.
MyOp call bullsht when you see it
Upgrading my 2013 Mack Book Pro to 32GB RAM