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Apple Vision Pro Features 16GB of RAM and Likely Up to 1TB of Storage

Specs and price are cool (all those sensors, all those development costs, the best experience you can get…) but seeing a device with that price tag bragging about an “outdated” processor is quite weird.
I mean, they could have changed specs to market it as a special VR processor together with the coprocessor and call it a coll name.
 
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Wizard_of_Woz said:
So, I'm not impressed by a $3,499 device with the same amount of RAM as my smartphone. Especially with how magical some people think this device will be.
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As long as it functions well the amount of RAM doesn't matter. I don't think comparing it to a smartphone is really relevant. If you have a criticism of the amount of RAM, then state why that is. I think 16GB will work fine, but do we really know at this point?
 
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Cool concept but too complicated and costly, why not built in dioptri adjustment as cameras and binoculars have.
 
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The fact that a $3500 device comes with 256gb is insane..
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My first Mac was a PowerBook 180 with an upgrade to 12MB RAM in the early 90s, when it graced the covers of all the Mac and PC magazines. I vaguely recall that state-of-the-art Mac with its 16-grayscale active-matrix display cost some $4200, and it was worth every penny as I wrote my dissertation. So the whiners complaining about $3500 today as outrageous have lost perspective on just how cheap our tech has become. And that's before Apple's 0% financing!
 
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I knew it cost $3,499. What I didn't expect was that that'd be the base configuration.

As someone who isn't even close to being able to afford a $3500 toy I wonder if Apple has considered how alienating this product can feel.
 
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Wizard_of_Woz said:
So, I'm not impressed by a $3,499 device with the same amount of RAM as my smartphone. Especially with how magical some people think this device will be.
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So you’ll be shocked to hear the 8Gb RAM that is onboard of a $100K+ Tesla computer. I hope you see my point here.

Let’s judge the AVP as a whole for what it can do, hardware specs aside. I’m not interested in the price NOW because I have no real clue how good it is. We’ll know soon enough 😊
 
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I find it hard to understand why the Vision Pro comes with an M2 Chip, instead of an M3. M3 was already launched in 2023, consumes less power, and has much more GPU performance, something critical in a VR/AR product. Games are one big reason for buying this, and choosing the M2 seems weird.
 
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Happy it’s getting 16GB RAM in its first iteration. That sets a very solid precedent for Vision products in the future. This, to me, means AVP should be perfectly capable of running VR versions of games like Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4. Not sure if that’ll happen, but if it doesn’t, it won’t be due to technical limitations.
 
d-klumpp said:
My first Mac was a PowerBook 180 with an upgrade to 12MB RAM in the early 90s, when it graced the covers of all the Mac and PC magazines. I vaguely recall that state-of-the-art Mac with its 16-grayscale active-matrix display cost some $4200, and it was worth every penny as I wrote my dissertation. So the whiners complaining about $3500 today as outrageous have lost perspective on just how cheap our tech has become. And that's before Apple's 0% financing!
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It truly is amazing how people do believe and feel like $3,500 is outrageous. Like you stated, in the PAST computers that are not even good enough to be considered a Fitbit watch. Cost MORE than the computers of today. It's amazing, truly is. Not to mention, they haven't used it yet. Seen or touched it. No matter how many times the haters have been completely wrong about any Apple product over the decades. They still show up and whine. :D
 
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jz0309 said:
amazing how people talk about "specs" when they have never even seen a VPro, leave alone used it ... MR users at their best
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I've seen and used several VPro's :D

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Wizard_of_Woz said:
My OnePlus Open has 16GB of RAM 🤣
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Yeah it's crazy how unoptimised that phone is, why does it needs so much RAM?! 🤣🤣 I mean the iPhone 13 Pro a phone that was released almost 3 years ago with only 6GB of RAM completely and utterly destroys in performance and every other category that "oneplus open". Why are android phones in general so unoptimised that need so much RAM? The iPhone has historically needed way less resources and it's way more performant than any android has ever been.
 
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erikkfi said:
I knew it cost $3,499. What I didn't expect was that that'd be the base configuration.

As someone who isn't even close to being able to afford a $3500 toy I wonder if Apple has considered how alienating this product can feel.
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Not alienating to me. I can so easily afford this that it makes no difference if it's 3500 or $5000. I'll get the max storage available. I'll be up at 4:45 am to pre order.
 
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Come on folks, let's be real - VisionOS is 3D iPad OS. I don't know it needs all that much RAM and SSD because it's not going to have heavyweight apps on this first time go around.

Some more storage for videos might be a thing but the days of needing lots of storage for media has gotten moot in the days of streaming content.

For the record, I'm not gonna get one. Until I try one. And then I'll want one. And yeah, then I'll probably buy one. But not on day one.
 
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sunapple said:
I pity those who finally got used to the idea of spending just $3,499…
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Yeah, those folks that ALWAYS feel driven to have the high end and were good having that at $3,499 will NOT be satisfied with that price now, knowing that something that costs more exists!
 
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