lpddr may have a better idle power consuming, and it consumes less power than ddr under the load, but im still waiting someone to point 'how much', what is the difference? .. "heard", "someone told", "phil said"... but the numbers? how much more? remember also calculate the paging on the ssd and the impact for consuming battery and taking more time to finish the job.
25Wh is lot of juice to consume...
Well, true - "heard", "someone told" - I agree, it's not really scientific. But the same could be said for the other side - how do they know that "adding just 3mm" or "keeping the same battery" would allow for 32Gb? How do they know how much changes would be required?
My logic is this - we all know that if Apple could put 32Gb in that laptop - people would buy it. They would charge it A LOT, and people would buy it. They would have great profits from it. I don't think they were like: "meh, who needs 32Gb?". I also compare the new MBPs to other laptops that do offer 32Gb RAM.
None of these laptops have great battery life. None that I've seen - I would love to see one that does. So, I'm guessing, it's not that simple.
Now, what people want is for Apple to give them choice: do you want less RAM but better battery life or do you want more RAM but bad battery life? But Apple has never been about these kinds of chocies. This is what bothers me - Apple was never like Dell or HP. Go to a Dell website - the XPS 15 or 13 can be anything from a low-res screen low-power with an integrated GPU to a 4K, i7 computer with a GeForce 960M. You can customize it in million ways. And that's fine - but that's not Apple. If you want that - go get Dell. It's that simple.
I find all this very contradictory. People say really silly things - like, I want a computer like Dell, but I am looking for it from a company that has always operated in a diametrically opposite way.
It was always like this. Just check the comments for the first MacBook Pros with Retina displays in 2012:
"barely enough RAM (and not upgradable to the “enough” level), no dedicated graphics, only dual-core processors. It certainly isn’t bad, but Apple just took the “pro” out of the 13-inch line. And come on - it’s freaking expensive."
That was 4 years ago. And it was the same 10 years ago, as well. It was the same when they remover the floppy drive, the CD drive, the LAN port. Apple was always making devices they think are best and didn't give choice to users when it comes to these things. And people are now realizing this? They JUST realized - hey, Apple is NOT Dell?
All of this is a non-issue. History repeating itself. People complain and complain with every - EVERY - new refresh of an Apple product. Just get that Dell already. But don't repeat that mantra "if they only didn't shave off 3mm, they could've made everything I wanted" - because you don't know that.
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