Who won't upgrate to the newest MBP unless it has 32GB of LPDDR4?

[XmlGenie]

If you need 32GB today then how are people surviving with such old machines? By the time 32GB is on the laptops, you know you'll be 'needing' 64GB.

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If you need 32GB today then how are people surviving with such old machines? By the time 32GB is on the laptops, you know you'll be 'needing' 64GB.

I use a Mac for work. The products I work with use ever bigger memory footprints and I Often find myself with two or three IDE's diagramming software and an SQL database open. Also, I do use virtualisation and I'd like to be able to run a VM and still have a full performant native environment.

 

[radus]

My time to update is when the new machine's Geekbench 4 is multicore > 20 000 and singlecore > 5000.
And I would appreciate a 360 degree Display with pen - input and windows 10 / linux - running out of the box.

 

[Ma2k5]

My time to update is when the new machine's Geekbench 4 is multicore > 20 000 and singlecore > 5000.
And I would appreciate a 360 degree Display with pen - input and windows 10 / linux - running out of the box.

2037 will be your year!

 

[maflynn]

I use a Mac for work. The products I work with use ever bigger memory footprints and I Often find myself with two or three IDE's diagramming software and an SQL database open. Also, I do use virtualisation and I'd like to be able to run a VM and still have a full performant native environment.

Is a 15" or 13" laptop the best tool for such work in the first place? I would think a desktop with more cores, a large display and a better GPU would be a better tool.

 

[Queen6]

Is a 15" or 13" laptop the best tool for such work in the first place? I would think a desktop with more cores, a large display and a better GPU would be a better tool.

Totally useless for those who's work dictates mobility. By far the vast majority of engineer's I work and collaborate with use notebook's for one reason mobility, and why Apple is no longer dominant thx to the MBP now being a locked down consumer product...

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[jerryk]

Totally useless for those who's work dictates mobility. By far the vast majority of engineer's I work and collaborate with use notebook's for one reason mobility, and why Apple is no longer dominant thx to the MBP now being a locked down consumer product...

Q-6

Really? I am surprised. I cannot image doing serious work at the office without multiple monitors.

 

[MrGunnyPT]

Totally useless for those who's work dictates mobility. By far the vast majority of engineer's I work and collaborate with use notebook's for one reason mobility, and why Apple is no longer dominant thx to the MBP now being a locked down consumer product...

Q-6

This I work in SAP and this is basically it, we always moving from one way to another

 

[greenmeanie]

It needs a usable KB and then I will worry about ram.

 

[Queen6]

Really? I am surprised. I cannot image doing serious work at the office without multiple monitors.

Why would you think people would work solely on the internal display, especially with DP, TB-3 & HDMI ports natively available? When running as a stand alone I utilise multiple desktops for projects and or application streams, and why having 32Gb RAM makes ever more sense.

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[jerryk]

Why would you think people would work solely on the internal display, especially with DP, TB-3 & HDMI ports natively available? When running as a stand alone I utilise multiple desktops for projects and or application streams, and why having 32Gb RAM makes ever more sense.

Q-6

Sorry, when I here a need for mobile computing. To me that implies not having a external monitors, keyboards, etc. Which implies fixed locations.

 

[Mr. Dee]

Totally useless for those who's work dictates mobility. By far the vast majority of engineer's I work and collaborate with use notebook's for one reason mobility, and why Apple is no longer dominant thx to the MBP now being a locked down consumer product...

Q-6

When you say mobility, do you mean, they need to be in the park licking an ice cream and singing love is in the air? Or they need to constantly travel from branch office to branch office to do field work?

 

[pixelatedscraps]

New keyboard, a matte screen and then 32Gb+ RAM in third place.

 

[Queen6]

When you say mobility, do you mean, they need to be in the park licking an ice cream and singing love is in the air? Or they need to constantly travel from branch office to branch office to do field work?

Globally travelling to meet the needs of the client, across multiple engineering centre's, just returning from a six week trip in Malaysia myself...

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Sorry, when I here a need for mobile computing. To me that implies not having a external monitors, keyboards, etc. Which implies fixed locations.

Both can apply, nor is it's uncommon to loan an external display & KB from the clients / contractors IT dept.

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[Mr. Dee]

Globally travelling to meet the needs of the client, across multiple engineering centre's...

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Both can apply, nor is it's uncommon to loan an external display & KB from the clients / contractors IT dept.

Q-6

What are they doing at each client that they would need to carry a what sounds like a mobile workstation? Wouldn't all the resources be within the data center or any other resources be accessed remotely using SSH and a Telnet client?

 

[Queen6]

What are they doing at each client that they would need to carry a what sounds like a mobile workstation? Wouldn't all the resources be within the data center or any other resources be accessed remotely using SSH and a Telnet client?

Independent quality assurance & engineering analysis. We work in isolation, only reporting to the higher levels of clients management team, covering all aspects of the project. I opt for a more powerful system as I can get more out of it, complete faster with less external support.

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[northernmunky]

I've been seeing this more often recently on my MacBook Pro with 16Gb of RAM even with not that much running in the background. Hate to admit it, but 32Gb minimum appears to be becoming a reality.

 

[grad]

Nah they'll need 256

256 would be nice but I can probably survive with 64.

 

[jerryk]

I've been seeing this more often recently on my MacBook Pro with 16Gb of RAM even with not that much running in the background. Hate to admit it, but 32Gb minimum appears to be becoming a reality.

What does you memory pressure look like. You may have an application not releasing pages, or you couple be running low on swap space on the SSD

 

[JGRE]

32gb of lpddr4 is coming in 2019, probably not sooner.
2020 will bring a redesign which may include a successor to the touch bar and touch id.

Thus - it might be the most wise to buy a new mbp in 2020.

Upgrate or upgrade?
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You 32gigers are few and far between. There are millions of people around the world who are using their MBPs with 4, 8 and 16GB of RAM with zero issues. As a matter of fact, there are probably more 8GB users than anyone else, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Sure, 32GB will eventually become an option for the MBP, but who really wants that and why?

Yep, early 2011 13" MBP with 8GB and a SSD upgrade, still running fine.