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think new MBP will have 16 GB ram?

butterfly0fdoom said:
Somehow I doubt Apple will redesign the 17" MBP to accomodate 2 more RAM slots. It's not like it's gained any extra width like the 27" iMac (omg remember when those things were 15"?).
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Well there will be 8GB ram sticks someday. My last laptop - a Dell Inspiron from 2004 - came with 256MB of RAM, which was kind of like 2GB today. I ordered it with 2x256MB RAM modules, which was like 4GB today. When I retired it last year it had two 1GB sticks of RAM in it.

So saying that no one will ever need 16GB is pretty short-sighted. Unless people actually buy MBPs to replace them after 2 years.
I'd like my notebook to give me 4-5 years of service myself, and by then I assume that 16GB capacity will be the norm, like 2GB today.
 
santos79 said:
Well there will be 8GB ram sticks someday. My last laptop - a Dell Inspiron from 2004 - came with 256MB of RAM, which was kind of like 2GB today. I ordered it with 2x256MB RAM modules, which was like 4GB today. When I retired it last year it had two 1GB sticks of RAM in it.

So saying that no one will ever need 16GB is pretty short-sighted. Unless people actually buy MBPs to replace them after 2 years.
I'd like my notebook to give me 4-5 years of service myself, and by then I assume that 16GB capacity will be the norm, like 2GB today.
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Well, I never said no one will need 16GB of RAM, I'm saying the 17" MBP isn't likely to be redesigned to accomodate 4 RAM slots, which would a more economical way to get 16GB of RAM and is how the 27" iMac is touted as be able to take 16GB of RAM. Sticking words in someone else's mouth is ignorant.

We're still at a point where 4GB sticks of RAM are still well over $300. A year ago they were merely over $400. Yeah, 16GB of RAM in 2 slots. Totally going to be economical in the short-term. By the time 16GB becomes as necessary as 8GB (which it really shouldn't, it's such a testament to "progress"), I'm pretty sure most people will have upgraded.
 
Uh, the joke is someone who doesn't know the difference between a gigabyte and a megabyte lol.

And as for running Windoze, maybe you should take a look around - it's a somewhat popular and useful OS =) OS X Server doesn't run Hyper-V last time I checked, oh brilliant one.

My hope that the MBP offers 16 GB of ram is because at this price point Apple's build quality is likely to be better than the HP Envy, and slimmer than the Dell Precision. Plus the added benefit of running other operating systems such as OS X...
 
I could see it being beneficial for someone running a lot of pro apps on various virtual machines and wanting it to last a long time.... I would love to have eight right now though but its just too expensive and unnecessary for my use... I think its possible apple could really beef up the mbP lineup and especially the top of the line 15 and 17 models should offer the possibility of 16GB...
 
Even most Hyper-V labs could squeeze by with 8 (enough for a domain controller, exchange server, and one other decent server)... But the extra flexibility would be nice. I'm not expecting it to happen this round though =)
 
I do not believe the new MBPs will have 16 GB of RAM. Apple would charge an astronomical amount for that much RAM. It's going to be two or three revisions until Apple will do it.
 
It is a decisive factor for me also; working with Logic and samplers takes over 8 gigs for me.

Also if they can release a 27" (or more) screen cause I find my old 23" quite small, it needs a bigger brother...

Else I'll get a iMac 27" and keep my current MBP.
 
pesos said:
16gb of ram isn't that much these days, even the imac can do it. Pro level machines are pushing 64/96/144 configs with the new chipsets. HP has 4 dimms and two SSDs in the same physical form factor as the MBP, but the optical drive is sacrificed, which I don't see Apple jumping to do...
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never know though. they already have the wireless ones for the air. they could just include one of those with the purchase. or heres and idea... make it BIGGER!!!! lol
 
okay so maybe they could start selling 8 gig dimms and make it compatable with up to 16?

sure they would cost a fortune, but people who have high end mbp money probably arent that tight for cash. just sayin
 
Just because you don't need 16G doesn't mean others don't

I've fallen in love with my wife's Macbook Air.

I write enterprise level software for a living. Which means multiple concurrent VMs using Windows, Linux, and some really weird emulation client OS. I have never had the need to write anything for a Mac OS. I'm not saying the need isn't there, but in 20+ years of development not a single one of my customers has ever expressed a need for ANY enterprise-level Mac application, of any kind.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not bashing Macs at all. But the fact is that in my business there is no need to use one as a development platform (from the OS level).

I spend a lot of time onsite at client locations. Which means a desktop simply won't work for me, I have to have a laptop -with as much fast memory and high-end graphics as possible.

My current development machine is a Dell Precision M6400 workstation, with a QX9300 Quad Core processor, 16G of RAM, and 120G SSD for O/S & VMs, and 320G HDD for other various data.

The ONLY reason I have the Dell vs. a Macbook Pro 17" is memory. If I could get 16G in the MBP I would have purchased that instead.

When it comes time to replace this current machine with a new one I'll try MBP again (I REALLY WANT ONE) -but if it doesn't have memory capabilities comparable with what is available from Dell (or HP / Toshiba / IBM / whatever) the sad truth is that I will, once again, be forced to purchase a Win/OS based machine. Which sucks.
 
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