LOL!!!! Have you not seen the M architecture? Memory modules are on the side of the chip!
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Gurman: Apple Testing 'M3 Pro' Chip for MacBook Pro With 12-Core CPU and 18-Core GPU
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Better have ray tracing. That alone would make me retire my M1 Max.
I mean even with 36gb you'd still have issues hahaha
That's some nasty memory leak u got there
It's like Apple fed him fake info, or he's deliberately trying to show mistakes so he can maintain distance from Apple legal. I do wonder if the recent sting bothers him.
On further reflection, single channel or triple channel memory seems unlikely and apple will continue using two sets of two channels for four total channels.
Perhaps Apple wants to boost the memory configurations a bit to improve value? So instead of 16/32/64/96 we could see 20/36/72/96? There are 6GB LPDDR5 RAM modules.
20GB - 2x6GB + 2x4GB
36GB - 2x12GB + 2x6GB
72GB - 2x24GB + 2x12GB
96GB - 4x24GB
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I'd love a 48gb option. The sweet spot for my needs.
While this will work just like putting different size sticks in a PC.
But just like that PC you will have parts of the memory that don't support the whole bandwidth (since it's only hitting half the chips).
So no that is the most stupid "solution" for this odd GB number.
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My guess....
1. a typo
2. they will actually source 6GB chips or 12GB chips with a wider bus
3. it is 3 channel, maybe 1/4 of an M3Extreme destined for the MacPro which would have 12 channels
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Sometimes I wonder if Gurman is being a controlled by Apple. He’s been doing it for years now and just gets away with it just fine. Seems like this his his professional profession.
Oh boy.. I've been thinking about upgrading from my 2020 M1 MBP to a newer one, but I keep finding more reasons to wait
If they announce something like this, though? Boom.
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I had to go re-watch him. The best of the best explains it. Johny Srouji!LOL!!!! Have you not seen the M architecture? Memory modules are on the side of the chip!
I do find that some web sites have a memory leak if you stay on them for extended periods of time. The Macrumors forum is one. Keeping a tab open will continually allocate more ram that does not get released (though it can be swapped to ssd). I've seen this on Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Sites with infinite scroll also exhibit this behavior (no surprise there, I guess) and they are not able to release the earlier content and it builds up.
Other non-browser apps also will allocate RAM over time. Why is Apple Music using 4GB of RAM right now?
The glowing Apple logo used the backlight of the display to shine through a cutout in the chassis. Very bright light used to leak in and mess up whatever was on your screen. With today's screen tech your toggle option would add an additional layer with an extra light to the display lid, hence making it thicker.
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At this point, it’s best to wait it out until the new MacBook Pro 14” & 16” are announced. Not worth getting the M2 in my opinion. Also, you can do what I'm going to do next month. Order the Midnight-MacBook Air 15".Oh boy.. I've been thinking about upgrading from my 2020 M1 MBP to a newer one, but I keep finding more reasons to wait
Interesting, looks like they are moving to base-12 RAM tiers rather than the current base 8? 12GB RAM standard (and existing 24GB upgrade option) for Air models going forward, too?
Haven't you run across certain tabs allocating GB of RAM in Chrome? I have. The infinite scroll sites sometimes do. Forums.macrumors.com will do so if you keep the tab open.
Agree. I doubt they would directly go after him; he's a Bloomberg employee and his information is published as an official Bloomberg newsletter. Apple would have to put pressure on Bloomberg to stop him. I think it is a mutual benefit relationship so Gurman is pretty safe.
Uhmmm... I spend a lot of time on this forums, and my memory stays controlled, no swap used and, I think, I have no memory leak. But I am still on Monterey, and I'm still using an Intel mac. Safari 16.3.1
I kinda disagree looking at this from two points, first he is not like a YouTube celebrity that Apple allows an early look at products for promoting products (never seen him around employees). Second is his propensity to write about Apple HR topics, WFH, Unionizations, layoffs, employee sensitive topics. Do an online search of his articles a lot has been the latter. If he was just maintaining a technical leak role that would be one thing but he more like a thorn to Apple in stir up of online controversy usually it generates negativity.
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Yeah same, Safari has been acting weird for me too.
Firefox is one of the three web browsers I use on my M1 MBP and its just notorious for eating up RAM and battery drainer, but I like using it for privacy reasons.
The glowing Apple logo used the display backlight, which is why it would only ever come on when the built-in display was on. This also meant there was a transparent window on the top of the enclosure, and with how thin display panels have been getting, this meant that with a strong light behind said window (like sunlight), it would shine through the display and cause a noticeable bright spot. The glowing Apple logo had to go. It would have been physically impossible to offer a toggle option for the old glowing Apple logo.
Making it toggleable would require a separate backlight and shielding, which would be very power-hungry, assuming it would even fit in the space Apple has to work with.
RAM tends to be exponents of 2 or combinations thereof because, well, it kinda has to be.
Apple has shipped iPhones with 3 GB RAM.
Mac Air 15 in with M3 chip will be my choice. Hoping it will come by end of the year.
My M1 Pro MBP is still really good a year later.